Grief over the Times

Μὴ σφόδρα δάκνου τοῖς λυπηροῖς. Ἂ γὰρ ἂν ἥττον λυπώπεθα ἥττόν ἐστι λυπηρά. Οὐδὲν δεινὸν εἰ ανεθλφθησαν οἱ αἰρετικοὶ, καὶ τῷ ἔαρι θαῥῥοῦσι τῶν φωλεῶν ἐξερπύσαντες, ὡς αὐτὸς γράφεις. Μικρὰ συριοῦσιν, εὔ οἴδα, εἴτα καταδὐσοντι, καὶ τῇ ἀληθείᾳ, καὶ τῷ καιρῷ πολεμούμενοι· καὶ τόσῳ μᾶλλον, ὅσῳπερ ἂν τῷ Θεῷ τὸ πᾶν ἐπιτρέπωεν. Ἅγιος Γρηγόριος ὁ Ναζιανζηνός, Ἐπιστολή ΟΒ', Γρηγοριῳ Νυσσης

Do not let troubles turn you to excessive grief. For the less we grieve over things the less grievous they are. It is not strange that the heretics have thawed and encouraged by the spring are creeping out of their holes, as you write. They will hiss for a short time, I know, and then will hide away, overcome both by the truth and the times, and all the more so the more we entrust the whole matter to God. Saint Gregory Nazianzus, Letter 72, to To Gregory of Nyssa