"We take others to task for small mistakes, and overlook greater ones in ourselves. We are quick to feel and brood over the things we suffer for others, but we think nothing of how much others suffer from us. If a man would weigh his own deeds fully and rightly, he would find little cause [...]
“You cannot arrive at virtue except through knowing yourself and knowing me. And this knowledge is more perfectly gained in time of temptation, because then you know that you are nothing, since you have now power to relieve yourself of the sufferings and troubles you would like to escape. And you know me in your [...]
"Now, all our peace in this miserable life is found in humbly enduring suffering rather than in being free from it. He who knows best how to suffer will enjoy the greater peace, because he is the conqueror of himself, the master of the world, a friend of Christ, and an heir of heaven." [...]
"When we suffer much we have a great chance to show God that we love Him; but when we suffer little, we have less occasion to show God our love; and when we do not suffer at all, our love is then neither great nor pure. By the grace of God, we can attain a [...]
"Any great love… makes the lover indifferent to physical hardships and sordid surroundings. The hovel of a man and wife who love each other is a far more joyous place than the rich apartment of the couple who have lost their love. Love of God begets an even greater indifference to our environment: a saint [...]
"From the moment I came to love suffering, it ceased to be a suffering for me. Suffering is the daily food of my soul." Source: St. Faustina, Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul
"When He sees a soul who loves Him greatly, He knows that soul can suffer much for Him, whereas one who loves Him little will suffer little. For my own part, I believe that love is the measure of our ability to bear crosses, whether great or small." Source: Saint Teresa of Avila, The [...]
"Learn, then, to suffer little things now that you may not have to suffer greater ones in eternity. Prove here what you can bear hereafter. If you can suffer only a little now, how will you be able to endure eternal torment? If a little suffering makes you impatient now, what will hell fire do? [...]
"To what dangers and sufferings people will submit themselves on land and sea to acquire great wealth, to return later to their own city with pleasures and honors! Yet they neither try not care to acquire the virtues or to suffer the least bit of pain to have them, though these are the riches of [...]
"Hunger, thirst, loss of worldly position, nakedness, cold, heat, insults, abuse, slander – all these things I [God] allow people to say and do to you. Not that I am the source of the malice and ill will of those who do these evil and harmful things; I only grant them their existence and time. [...]