The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.

The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri (ed. St Athanasius Press, 2009) - ISBN: 9780976911845