My friend emailed me these words from 2 great Saints...I think they're really helpful:
We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer
is long delayed. Rather let us because of this show great patience and
resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence. Whether, therefore, we recieve what we ask for, or do not recieve it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining the desires of our heart, when God so wills it, is not worse than to recieve it ; for we know not as He does, what is profitable to us.
-- St. John Chrysostom
If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin
every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.
-- St. Charles Borromeo
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