Prayer in its turn gives us the weapons of true humility and blazing charity, because holy prayer gives us perfect knowledge of ourselves and our own weakness and of God's infinite charity and goodness. And we come to know both ourselves and God better in times of struggle and when our spirit is all dried up. We learn more perfect humility and conscientiousness from these (experiences).
So if we are wise enough not to serve our own selfish will in the guise of consolation and not to believe the devil, but with holy hatred (of our selfishness) persevere in prayer in whatever way God
grants it to us--whether with feelings of sweetness or with a sense of bitterness--we gain more...in the bitterness and pain, no matter in what form God sends it, than in the sweetness.
~Saint Catherine of Siena~
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