QUOTATION: Suffering

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.

– St. Ignatius Loyola

QUOTATION: Sainthood

What saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?

--St. Jerome, Letters, 22:39.