SO GOOD QUOTES

But however debilitating this fear of death is, as shown forth above, and even in the experience of those saints I’ve mentioned, it is easier to bear than despondency. It is for this reason that I have extended myself in writing this “double course” of words, so that I may teach you that whatever price you pay, you will receive in its place a much greater corresponding recompense of good things. And so that you may learn that this is so, I will hasten to come to those who are crushed by despair, as I began to do earlier.

—Saint John Chrysostom, Letters to Saint Olympia