His battle against human passions is greater than that waged in human society. Each of them is dissatisfied with something. Let us take, for example, motherhood. But look about you, O man, and learn to value what you have been granted to have in God's unceasing mercy towards you. And a priest, although it is true he has no life of his own, but by God's mercy he has the whole fullness of spiritual life.
Monasticism is a sacrifice and a voluntary martyrdom.
Even if there have occurred to you all those misfortunes about which the bishop asked the despondent man, by this the abyss of God's mercy to you has not even been touched. There is no end to this inspiring list.