Chapter 33 — Part IV: Prayer — On Prayer in General
Section 20. Prayer Disposes The Soul For Divine Blessings — Furthermore, God wishes us to make use of prayer, in order that burning with the desire of asking what we are anxious to obtain, we may thus by our perseverance and zeal make such advances in spiritual life, as to be worthy to obtain those blessings which the soul could not obtain before because of its dryness and lack of devotion.