To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people |
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it. |
You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect. |