Where would there be opportunities for struggling for great deeds...
Where would there be opportunities for struggling for great deeds if we were not occasioned injury by our neighbors, if they did not offend us?
Where would there be opportunities for patiently bearing offenses, for meekness and humility?
You see, then, that we must be tried by many and various evils in order to prove our virte and be eventually crowned.
St John of Kronstadt
My Life in Christ
