If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.
So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
Some people are tempted most strongly at the beginning of their spiritual life, others near the end. Some are troubled all their lives. Still others receive only light temptation. Such things are decided by God, and we can trust his wisdom.
Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.