Humility, humility, humility, and humility.
The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.
A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.
You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.
It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.
Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.