Quote from Letter 9.102 to Andrew. January 599
I have been greatly distressed to hear that grief and illness have so horribly plagued your Glory. But as soon as I heard that your affliction had left you totally, my pain turned into joy, and I offered great thanks to almighty God, for he has shattered us so as to make us whole, and has afflicted us so as to lead us to true joys. For thus it is written: 'Whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges.'
I have been greatly distressed to hear that grief and illness have so horribly plagued your Glory. But as soon as I heard that your affliction had left you totally, my pain turned into joy, and I offered great thanks to almighty God, for he has shattered us so as to make us whole, and has afflicted us so as to lead us to true joys. For thus it is written: 'Whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges.'
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 603
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