Pray for me to the Holy Virgin, my little nurse, for if you were ill, I would pray a lot for you. But when it comes to oneself, one does not dare so much…
When we ask the Holy Virgin for something and she does not listen to us, it means that she does not want to. Then it is necessary to let her do as she wishes and not to be troubled by it.
(Thérèse of Lisieux, Last Conversations, August 23, 1897)