Nothing is so opposed to true repose and peace as anxiety to achieve an enterprise one is bent on bringing to a conclusion.  When the intention is set on the necessary accomplishment of this or that, God can no longer dispose of us freely nor lead us along the pathway of His choice.  What is this, in reality, but to force Him to accommodate himself to our fantasy?  It is to prefer our will to his, to wish to please him on one side, and to disobey him on the other; in a word, to seek him while flying from him. —St Peter of Alcantara ‘Treatise on Prayer and Meditation’

St Peter of Alcantara