It cost Christ and all His followers sharp showers and hot sweats ere they won to the top of the mountain. But still our soft nature would have heaven coming to our bedside when we are sleeping, and lying down with us, that we might go to heaven in warm clothes; but all that came there found wet feet by the way, and sharp storms that did take the hide off their face, and found tos and fros, and ups and downs, and many enemies by the way.

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

There is no necessity for pain-why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity?

Licitis perimus omnes

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.

Life in community with broken people will always include such disappointments. But they can be met with resilience, and with a faith in the eternal significance of a life lived with the suffering. Such a life will never be easy or tidy; the work is endless and will always stretch on before us.

He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Jesus asks me to go to him when I am overburdened. He did not promise to take away those burdens, for I must carry mine as he carried his.

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.