If you have failings

If you have failings, ask God often whether it be
His honour and pleasure to take them away from you;
for without Him you can do nothing. If he takes
them away, thank Him; but if He does not do that,
you will bear it no more, however, as the defect
of a sin, but as a great trial with which you are
to gain merit and practice patience. You should
be content, whether or not He accords you His gift.
- Meister Eckhart (1260?-1327?),
Works of Meister Eckhart