� While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others. � � Thomas Aquinas

� Grant, O Lord my God, that I may never fall away in success or in failure; that I may not be prideful in prosperity nor dejected in adversity. Let me rejoice only in what unites us and sorrow only in what separates us. May I strive to please no one or fear to displease anyone except Yourself. May I see always the things that are eternal and never those that are only temporal. May I shun any joy that is without You and never seek any that is beside You. O Lord, may I delight in any work I do for You and tire of any rest that is apart from You. My God, let me direct my heart towards You, and in my failings, always repent with a purpose of amendment. � � Thomas Aquinas

� In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice. � � Viktor E. Frankl