Catholic Wisdom

"The reward is so great for such a little effort! What have we to bear: some humiliations, losses, sickness, sharp words, inconveniences? But these will not kill us! The  martyrs suffered much more than that. Or, do we feel that resisting temptation is too much effort? Yet, by confidence is God and distrust of ourselves, these too we can overcome."

--Saint Jean-Marie Vianney, "On Salvation," in Catechisms of the Holy Curé of Ars, 1927.