Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder.

Believe that you may understand.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.