A person cannot choose the time in which he is born or lives; it is not up to him, who his parents are, or the nation he will be born into, but what he is responsible for is how he will act in that given time: will he be human or inhuman. Pavle (Serbian)
The spiritual combat in which we kill our passions to put on the new man is the most difficult struggle of all. We must never weary of this combat, but fight the holy fight fervently and perseveringly. Nilus of Sinai
If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them. Basil of Caesarea
A marriage is a procession in which the cross goes first. Lower Austria Proverb
The world is a ladder, in which some go up and others go down. Gypsy Proverb
May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right. Gypsy Proverb