If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Whoever possesses God is happy.