"So let silence or a holy argument for virtue be in your mouth to discourage vice. And when you think you discern vice in others, put it on your own back as well as theirs, acting always with true humility. Then if the vice is truly there, such people will change their ways all the [...]
"Macedonius explained to me, lowly that I am, why he had voluntarily adopted a humbled life of this kind. 'I have never felt such absence of conflict within me, such sweetness of divine light, as now,' he said." -St. John Climacus
"Macedonius explained to me, lowly that I am, why he had voluntarily adopted a humbled life of this kind. 'I have never felt such absence of conflict within me, such sweetness of divine light, as now,' he said." Source: St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent
"Society can be saved only if man is saved from his unbearable conflicts, and man can be rescued from them only if his soul is saved." Source: Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Way to Happiness, St. Pauls, 1998.
"There was at that time a certain nun who managed to irritate me in everything she did. The devil had a part in it, for it was certainly he who made me see all her bad points. Not wishing to give way to natural antipathy, I reminded myself that sentiments of charity were not enough; [...]
"Today, I was visited by a certain lay person who has caused me a lot of sorrow and who has abused my goodness, telling many lies. At the first moment, I saw her, the blood froze in my veins, because there stood before my eyes all that I had to suffer because of her, although [...]
"Macedonius explained to me, lowly that I am, why he had voluntarily adopted a humbled life of this kind. 'I have never felt such absence of conflict within me, such sweetness of divine light, as now,' he said." Source: St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent