QUOTATION: Closeness to God

The sinner who is ashamed to do evil is closer to God than the upright man who is ashamed to do good.

--Saint Padre Pio

QUOTATION: The Righteous Man

Nothing distinguishes the unrighteous from the righteous more than this: that in affliction, the unrighteous man impatiently complains and blasphemes. In contrast, the righteous man is proved by his patience.

--St. Cyprian of Carthage