Never have I felt dryness and cold comparable to those which I know right now, and all this to the point of thinking that I’ve never even known what it means to love the good God. Sometimes I make an effort to revive my memory, to remember one or two fervent words in my past, which might awaken in my heart some sentiments of love: but nothing… To follow the will of God, this is for my heart a sufficient consolation… I ask of God to accept my heart and to give me the grace of always following his will in joy.
Little Brother Marcel Văn CSsR (1928–1959)