Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger; for your anger does not produce God’s righteousness.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

. . . perplexed, but not in despair.

And, above everything else, be truly loving, for love is the golden chain of all the virtues.

“Today’s trouble is enough for today.”

I lie awake; I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.

We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance.

In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.

But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, he perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.”

We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself.