St. Catherine of Siena - God the Father about dryness in prayer /or rather lack of it/
"For through loving affection their desire has reached such union that nothing can separate it [from Me]. Every time and place is for them a time and place of prayer. For their conversation has been lifted up from the earth and has climbed up to heaven. In other words, they have shed every earthly affection and sensual selfishness and have risen above themselves to the height of heaven by the stairway of virtue, having climbed the three stairs that I symbolized for you in the Body of My only-begotten Son. At the first step they put off love of vice from the feet of their affection. At the second they taste the secret and the love of His heart and there conceive love in virtue. At the third step of spiritual peace and calm they prove their virtue, and rising up from imperfect love they come to great perfection. Thus have these found rest in the teaching of My Truth. They have found table and food and waiter, and they taste this food through the teaching of Christ crucified, My only-begotten Son."
