"Temptation spares no elect soul. it did not spare the Apostle to the Gentiles, who, after having been taken up into paradise while he was still alive, underwent such a trial that Satan almost succeeded in casting him down. My God! Who can read his writing without feeling the blood run cold in their veins?! How many tears, how many sighs, how many groans, how many prayers did this holy apostle not lift up to the Lord to ask him to remove this very painful trial from him! But how did Jesus answer? 'My grace is sufficient for you, and My power is made perfect in weakness' [2 Corinthians 12;9]."  -St. Pio of Pietrelcna