Brandon

“It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.”
― Thomas Watson, The Art of Divine Contentment

“Think it not enough, that you can bear the denial of sinful desires; but presently destroy the desires themselves. For if you let alone the desires, they may at last lay hold upon their prey, before you are aware: or if you should be guilty of nothing but the desires themselves, it is no small iniquity; being the corruption of the heart, and the rebellion and adultery of the principal faculty, which should be kept loyal and chaste to God. The crossness of thy will to the will of God, is the sum of all the evil and impiety of the soul; and the subjection and conformity of thy will to his, is the heart of the new creature, and of thy rectitude and sanctification.”
― Richard Baxter, The Practical Works of Richard Baxter, Vol. 1: A Christian Directory

“There is no greater misery than false joys.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux

“The torture allotted to the Danaids in the classical underworld, that of attempting to fill sieves with water, is the symbol not of one vice, but of all vices. It is the very mark of a perverse desire that it seeks what is not to be had.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Inner Ring