Only through suffering, through the Passion, can we advance along the road to sanctity and divine union. There is no other way but the way of the Cross.
The easiest thing about faith is confessing it before adoring fans that you believe. The most difficult part is the total giving of your life and future to the will of God, fully surrendering to it wherever it may take you whether or not you may have chosen that road or destiny should you had your will followed.