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" What followed was a humiliation that Paul never forgot, but it prevented his murder. The Acts tell us that “when it was dark, the disciples took him and let him down from the top of the wall, lowering him in a basket” (Acts 9: 23, 25). This suffering was so deeply imprinted in his memory that when he told the Corinthians of this experience almost twenty years later, one can feel the twinge of pain he felt as he wrote his account. This suffering and many that followed prevented Paul from ever boasting of the gifts, graces, and revelations that God bestowed upon him (2 Cor. 11: 32-33). Paul would say from his heart, “In view of the extraordinary nature of these revelations, to stop me from getting too proud I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to beat me and stop me from getting too proud” (2 Cor. 12: 7). "
― Mother Angelica , Mother Angelica on Suffering and Burnout
