Affliction was allowed…
Affliction was allowed to make those afflicted more careful and more pious.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Hardship and humility…
Hardship and humility save the soul and free it from all the passions.
–Saint Thalassios the Libyan (6th-7th Centuries)
Afflictions produce humility…
It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged… If you desire virtue, than give yourself to every affliction, for afflictions produce humility. If someone abides in virtue without afflictions, the door of pride is opened to him.
–Saint Isaac of Syria (Seventh Century)
Patiently bear tribulations…
Tribulations, if we bear them patiently for the love of God, appear bitter at first, but they grow sweet, when one gets accustomed to the taste.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
Accept misfortune…
Whatever the course of our lives, we should receive them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatsoever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means, detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.
–Galileo (1564-1642)
Trials are the forge…
Trials are nothing else but the forge that purifies the soul of all its imperfections.
–Saint Mary Magdalen de Pazzi (1566-1607)
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