SO GOOD QUOTES

Therefore, if you wish now to reckon up the pleasant things along with those that are sorrowful, you will see that many events have happened which, if not signs and wonders, still resemble signs, and are ineffable proofs of the great providence of God and his solicitude. But if everything you are hearing from us is not immediately providing you comfort, I leave things to your consideration, so that you may very carefully analyze everything and make a comparison of these things with your reasons for sadness, and through this good effort you may lead yourself away from despondency. For you will gain much consolation through this.

—Saint John Chrysostom, Letters to Saint Olympia