The Kinds of Prayer to Aim At

Yet as we advance in life and attain to virtue, we ought rather to aim at those kinds of prayer that pour out either from the contemplation of the good things to come or from fervent love, or that at least, to speak more humbly and in keeping with the measure of beginners, rise up for the gaining of some virtue or the destruction of some fault. For otherwise we will not possibly reach those higher kinds of supplication we spoke of, unless our mind has been raised little by little, step by step, through the regular course of those intercessions.