“Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” [John 12.24]

“Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” [John 21.15]

“Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.” [Colossians 1.24]

“We must subject ourselves to the Will of God. What is our religion, if we can’t?” [John Henry Cardinal Newman]