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For this cause do many things displease thee and often trouble thee, that thou art not yet perfectly dead to thyself nor separated from all earthly things. Nothing so defileth and entangleth the heart of man as impure love towards created things. If thou rejectest outward comfort thou wilt be able to contemplate heavenly things and frequently to be
... See moreThomas Kempis • The Imitation of Christ [with Biographical Introduction]
having bestowed her affections (or whatever it might be that, in the absence of anything better, represented them)
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
Augustine describes this by using the metaphor of a journey: disordered love is like falling in love with the boat rather than the destination.11 The problem is that the boat won’t last forever and is going to start to feel claustrophobic. Your heart is built for another shore.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
I daresay I must call this my home – though truly there never was so dank and drear a place – though Essex being flat and featureless at least has in its favour the kind of skies which all my life I have sought – I confess to having been surprised by affection for my husband – this dreadful emotion roused by discovering that he has commissioned a
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
That Pleyel should abandon me forever, because I was blind to his excellence, because I coveted pollution, and wedded infamy, when, on the contrary, my heart was the shrine of all purity, and beat only for his sake, was a destiny which, as long as my life was in my own hands, I would by no means consent to endure.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
"I'd rather have you, Ellador, than all the children in the world. I'd rather have you with me—on your own terms—than not to have you."