"I shall miss you sorely, but trouble is the very thing I look for.

He who succeeds in making the sorrows of the whole world his own--he whose soul is touched by a sorrow at every breath he draws--he indeed must long for the call of the Redeemer." Hermas fell weeping on his neck and started to feel how burning the anchorite's lips were as he pressed them to his forehead.
At last the sailors drew in the ropes; Paulus turned once more to the youth.

"You are going your own way now," he said.

"Do not forget the Holy Mountain, and hear this: Of all sins three are most deadly: To serve false gods, to covet your neighbor's wife, and to raise your hands to kill; keep yourself from them.

And of all virtues two are the least conspicuous, and at the same time the greatest: Truthfulness and humility; practise these.