Our Own Efforts

The soul cannot have true knowledge of God through 
its own efforts or by means of any created thing, but 
only by divine light and by a special gift of divine grace. 
I believe there is  no quicker or easier way for the soul 
to obtain this divine grace from God, supreme Good 
and supreme Love, than by a devout, pure, humble,  
continual, and determined prayer.

- Angela of Foligno -