'Sometimes we try hard to practice pure prayer, and
cannot; but it happens also that we do not compel ourselves, yet the
soul prays with purity. The first results from our infirmity, the
second, from grace from above, which thus calls us to seek purity of
soul and teaches us, in each case, not to ascribe it to ourselves if our
prayer is pure, but to recognize in this a gift of the Giver. "We know
not what we should pray for as we ought;" [Romans 8:26]. When we try to
make our prayer pure and cannot, but are enveloped in darkness, let us
moisten our cheeks with tears and implore God to disperse the night of
the battle and to let light shine in the soul.'
Matthew 21:22
And in all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.
And in all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.
