I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.
I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
God, deliver me from sullen saints.
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.