‘…Do the works of justice, and you will surely have peace.  If you love not justice, you will never enjoy peace.  For peace and justice are linked together so closely, that if you love not justice, peace will not love you, or come near you.  Peace is not obtained but by war.’  So that if you will not make war with yourself, by mortifying and restraining your desires, and by getting mastery over your passions, you will never obtain this peace, which is so necessary for us to be able to apply ourselves to prayer.  ‘What is a greater hindrance and trouble to you,’ says a Kempis, ‘than the unmortified affections of your heart?’  Your irregular passions and evil inclinations trouble you, and hinder you from being devout.  They disquiet you in your devotions, and cause such disturbance in your soul, that the sweet sleep and repose enjoyed in prayer is continually interrupted;… –St Alonso Rodriguez ‘Christian Perfection’