The author says our prayers are misdirected when we ask God that He help us to love Him more. If we pray to him more, we will love Him more.

Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.

God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish.

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.

Kingdom is a signpost to the holy.

Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.

Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist.

We all have a tendency to use prayer to dictate to God.

All prayers that beseech the mercy of God are finally and fully answered in that suffering Servant Whom God sent, Jesus Christ. We, even our desires, are saved because HE was bruised.

Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer