P. Es

“From the evolutionary perspective, revenge is retaliation that is intended either to destroy an enemy or to foster deterrence against him, as well as against third parties. This, of course, applies to non-physical and non-violent, as well as to physical and violent, action.”
― Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization

“I also maintain that those who are punished in Gehenna are scourged by the scourge of love. For what is so bitter and vehement as the punishment of love? I mean that those who have become conscious that they have sinned against love suffer greater torment from this than from any fear of punishment. For the sorrow caused in the heart by sin against love is sharper than any torment that can be. It would be improper for a man to think that sinners in Gehenna are deprived of the love of God. Love is the offspring of knowledge of the truth which, as is commonly confessed, is given to all. The power of love works in two ways: it torments those who have played the fool, even as happens here when a friend suffers from a friend; but it becomes a source of joy for those who have observed its duties. Thus I say that this is the torment of Gehenna: bitter regret. But love inebriates the souls of the sons of Heaven by its delectability. (Aescetical Homilies I.28, p. 266)”
― Isaac the Syrian

“For use on the first Sunday in Lent, the service books of the Greek Orthodox Church include a special office known as ‘The Synodikon of Orthodoxy’, which contains no less than sixty anathemas against different heresies and heresiarchs. Yet in this comprehensive denunciation there is one unexpected omission: no reference is made to the errors of the Latins, no allusion to the Filioque or the papal claims, even though more than a third of the anathemas date from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries, a time when doctrinal disagreements between East and West had emerged clearly into the open.
This omission of the Latins is an indication of the curious imprecision which prevails in the relations between Orthodoxy and Rome.”
― Kallistos Ware

“Prayers are not always—in the crude, factual sense of the word—'granted.' This is not because prayer
is a weaker kind of causality, but because it is a stronger kind. When it 'works' at all it works unlimited
by space and time. That is why God has retained a discretionary power of granting or refusing it; except
on that condition prayer would destroy us. It is not unreasonable for a headmaster to say, 'Such and
such things you may do according to the fixed rules of this school. But such and such other things are
too dangerous to be left to general rules. If you want to do them you must come and make a request
and talk over the whole matter with me in my study. And then—we'll see'. -'Work and Prayer”
― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics