If it seems to you that God does not hear you, call out all the louder, and if He drives you from the door, enter in through another. If He tells you – just as He did to the Canaanite woman – that you are not worthy of the grace for which you are asking, confess that it is precisely for that reason you are not asking for supreme graces, but only for the chance to eat the crumbs that fall from God's table.
(Jean Francis de Chantal /1572–1641/, Small Treatise on Prayer)