A patient man hath a great and wholesome purgatory, who, receiving injuries, is more concerned at the person's sin than his own wrong; who willingly prays for his adversaries, and from his heart forgives offenses; who is easier moved to compassion than to anger; who frequently useth violence to himself, and labors to bring the flesh wholly under subjectjion to the spirit.
It is better now to purge away our sins and to cut up our vices than to reserve them to be purged hereafter.
-- Imitation of Christ
