// Java
for(
  Enumeration e = parent.getChildren();
  e.hasMoreElements();
) {
  Element child = (Element) e.nextElement();
  // Do something with child
}

# Ruby
parent.each_child do |child|
  # Do something with child
end

Can’t you feel the peace and contentment in this block of code? Ruby is the language Buddha would have programmed in.

Sean Russell, author of REXML, comparing Java iteration with Ruby iteration

The proof of love is to suffer for the one you love.

Padre Pio

Since then [Jesus] Himself declared and said of the Bread, “This is My Body”, who shall dare to doubt any longer [that it is His Body]? And since He has Himself affirmed and said, “This is My Blood”, who shall ever hesitate, saying, that it is not His blood?

St. Cyril of Jerusalem, from Catechetical Lecture 22 written in the 4th century A.D.

See also 1 Cor 11:23-25, Matt 26:26-28, Mark 14:22-24, Luke 22:19-20.

We are tempted to stay mired in our failures, to limit our lives to what we can imagine, to the security of what we are comfortable with. Left to ourselves, we strike a bargain with our faults and failings, believing them to be our destiny. But there is within our limitations, our faults and failures a divinely conceived creature waiting to be released, waiting to break through to a level of life only God can conceive.

attributed to St. Teresa of Avila

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

G. K. Chesterton