“Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Resist the devil and he will flee from you.  Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.” James 4: 7,8

St. Pope John Paul II
Tenderness, as a sincerely filial attitude toward God, is expressed in prayer.  The experience of one’s own existential poverty, of the void that earthly things leave in the soul, arouses in man the need to turn to God to obtain grace, help, and forgiveness. (Angelus, May 28, 1989)