Be comforted with this divine thought that your spiritual and physical pains are the test of the Divine Will.
Pio of PietrelcinaIf the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."
Pio of PietrelcinaThe life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.
Pio of Pietrelcina