The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed...." I suppose it was at such a moment that Thomas Aquinas said of all his own theology, "It reminds me of straw.

“Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him.…”

“I perceived now that there is a love deeper than theirs who seek only the happi…”

“you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.”

“Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we…”