taken from 'Practicing the Presence of God' by Brother Lawrence....
'He, bro Lawrence, complains much of our blindness; and cries often that we are to be pitied who content ourselves with so little. God, says he, has infinite treasure to bestow,and we take up with a little sensible devotion which passes in a moment. Blind as we are, we hinder God, and stop the current of His Graces. But when He finds a soul penetrated with a lively faith, He pours into it His graces and favours plentifully; there they flow like a torrent which after being forcibly stopped against it's ordinary course, when it has found a passage spreads itself with impetuousity and abundance'