Rufus Abu

“For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.”
― Francis Thompson

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ninety-nine per cent of the human race, no matter how smart they are, will do the convenient thing instead of the wise thing, and kid themselves into thinking they can somehow escape the consequences.”
― Poul Anderson, Brain Wave

“God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as it is he has set his love upon particular sinners, and this means that, by his own free voluntary choice, he will not know perfect and unmixed happiness again till he has brought every one of them to heaven. He has in effect resolved that henceforth for all eternity his happiness shall be conditional upon ours.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God