"We may have
become careless in being faithful to our spiritual commitments such as
attendance at daily (worship), our daily time of prayer, spiritual reading, and
so on. Or we may have become careless in valuing the gifts God gives us, or in
rejecting or dallying with temptation. Or we may have begun to allow
distractions, entertainments, and engagement in worldly activities to deaden
our hunger for God . . . Dryness experienced as a result of negligence,
lukewarmness, and infidelity—and whatever stage of the downward spiral it may
have led to—have only one solution: repentance. This dryness is self-induced;
the solution to it is to return to fidelity in our spiritual practices."
— Ralph Martin, The Fulfillment of All Desire, p.166
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