“FOR they wish to be humble, without being despised; to be content with their own, yet without mortification of the body; to be patient, yet without undergoing insults; and when they seek to make virtuous attainments, yet eschew the toils thereof, what else is this than that at one and the same time to know nothing of the conflicts of war in the field, and to desire to have the triumphs for war in the city."
~Pope St. Gregory I (c. 540 – 604): Morals, 7, 34.