"The greatest pains of souls in meditation is find themselves sometimes without a feeling of devotion and without any desire of loving God. When a soul gives itself up to the spiritual life, the Lord is accustomed to heap consolations upon it in order to wean it from the pleasures of the world. But afterward, when He sees the soul settled in a more spiritual way, then he draws back His hand in order to make proof of His love and see whether it serves and loves God without being repaid with spiritual joys. Now some foolish persons seeing themselves in a state of aridity think that God may have abandoned them and so they give up mental prayer and they lose all they have gained.” - St. Alphonsus Liguori
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