Good People...Bad Things

And the higher anyone ascends in virtue, the harder this world will bear down on him;
for the more the love of the heart turns from the present life,
the more the opposition of this same world mounts up.

Hence it is that we see so many strive after, and do, that which is good;
yet they sweat under the burdens of their afflictions.
For though they have turned away from earthly things,
they are yet harassed with increasing tribulations.

-St. Gregory