SO GOOD QUOTES

Listen to what he said then, as he prayed: “It is enough now, O Lord; take my life from me, for I am no better than my fathers.”15 And that most fearsome thing [i.e., death], the height of torture, the chief of evils, the punishment for all sins, this he asks for in prayer, as he wishes to share in a portion of grace. For despondency is much more oppressive than death. In order to flee from the one, he takes refuge in the other.

—Saint John Chrysostom, Letters to Saint Olympia