Quotations

'In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world' (John 16, 33).

'As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent' (Revelation 3, 19).

'When man, from the Lord, overcomes in temptation, he is drawn out of hell, and is elevated into heaven; hence it is that through temptations, or combats against evils, man becomes spiritual, thus an angel' (Swedenborg L. 33).

'When we seek relief
From a long-felt grief,
When oppressed by new temptations,
Lord increase and perfect patience:
Show us that bright shore
Where we weep no more'.
                     (Zinzendorf)

'Man's virtue must not be judged by great occasions, but by his ordinary life' (Pascal).