Pamela

“God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.”
― Hannah Hurnard

“He who lives according to God ought to cherish towards evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of his vice nor love the vice because of the man.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God

“Clearly, it is a happier lot to be the slave of a man than of a lust:”
― Augustine of Hippo, The City of God against the Pagans

“There is in the soul a desire for not thinking.
For being still. Coupled with this
a desire to be strict, yes, and rigorous.
But the soul is also a smooth son of a bitch,
not always trustworthy. And I forgot that.”
― Raymond Carver, All of Us: The Collected Poems