The nations that redeem every hour of their lives with blood and anguish are enriched with spiritual graces unknown to the well-off peoples.

They remain poor in spiritual treasures and humanity because comfort dulls the inner person.

While pain shapes peoples and purifies them, just as gold is refined by fire in the crucible.

For this reason, the unfortunate Greek nation is adorned with some everlasting flowers, which great and powerful peoples of the earth have not been worthy of...