Hanners

“Help me, Gunnulf,” begged Kristin. She was white to the very edge of her lips. “I don’t know my own will.” “Then say: Thy will be done,” replied the priest softly.”
― Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter

“All fires burn out sooner or later.”
― Sigrid Undset, The Cross

“The forgiveness of God

In God, there is another perfection, which inclines Him to forgive immediately the gravest and most numerous offenses, if we make a firm resolution to turn from them and truly to amend.

Even more, God forgets these offenses in return for a single lamentation for a contrite heart, as Scripture says. And if we remain in this good will, He does not contemplate vengeance for our sins later, nor does He contemplate reproaching us with them in order to dismay us, nor charging us with them in order to love us less, nor driving us away from Him by withdrawing His intimacy.”
― Thomas Aquinas, The Ways of God: For Meditation and Prayer

“All that had happened and would happen was meant to be. Everything happens as it is meant to be.”
― Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter