"Do not imagine yourself utterly forsaken if for a while I have allowed some trial to harass you, or withdrawn the comfort that you desire; for this is the way to the Kingdom of Heaven.    Be assured that it is better for you, and for all My servants, to struggle against difficulties than to have everything as you wish.     I know your secret thoughts, and it is necessary for your salvation that you should sometimes be deprived of spiritual joys, lest you become conceited in your happy state, and complacently imagine yourself better than you are."     The Imitation of Christ Thomas à Kempis