I feel when we pray during such times of spiritual dryness that God listens more intently to our hearts.

"God values in you the inclination to dryness and suffering for love of him more than all the consolations, spiritual visions, and meditations you could possibly have."

"Dryness leads us gently from vocal prayer, where we learn to speak to  God; to Meditation, where we think of God; to Contemplation, where our heart merely gazes upon Him with a love too deep for words."

"I was far from getting any consolation. Instead, I suffered complete  spiritual dryness, almost as if I were quite forsaken… But that doesn’t  upset me. It fills me with great joy. It’s true that I am a long way  from being a saint, and this attitude of mine proves it. Instead of the  lighting in my spiritual aridity, I have to blame my lack of faith and  fervor for it. I should be distressed that I drop off the sleep during  my prayers and during my thanksgiving after Communion. But I don’t feel  at all distressed. I know that children are just as dear to their  parents whether they are asleep or awake and I know that doctors put  their patients to sleep before they operate. So I just think that God “knows our frame; remembers that we are dust.”  

"Never leave prayer because of dryness or difficulty. Remain before God entirely plunged in His holy love, detached from all desire for your own pleasure. It might help to send out little darts of love, such as, `O  my God, my true Good, I am yours!’ and then remain in peace."

"Remain calm in times of dryness."

"God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He  is present."

"When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had."

"Spiritual persons suffer great trials from the fear of being lost on the road and that God has abandoned them. Their soul was taking pleasure in  being in that quietness and ease, instead of working with its  faculties."

"As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and  see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you  consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you." 

"God uses times of aridity to press his most beloved souls closer to him.  What hinders true union with God is attachment to our disordered inclinations. When, therefore, God wants to draw souls to his perfect love, he tries to detach them from all affection for created goods."

"Be not afraid to tell Jesus that you love Him; even though it be without  feeling, this is the way to oblige Him to help you, and carry you like a  little child too feeble to walk."

"Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you  feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes."

"Ought you so soon to forget how He has cherished you or to believe that  God would lightly withdraw affection He bestowed so fully? Why did He grant so many proofs of it, if not to make you trust Him? Be assured  that He loves you, even if He does not show it at the present moment."

"Faith flourishes in the dark:  trials, temptations, spiritual dryness and suffering are all opportunities for our faith to grow stronger. We can, of course, neglect these opportunities and allow our faith to wither and die. But those who praise God in life’s difficulties will  experience the opposite effect."

"Pray, even if you feel nothing, see nothing. For when you are dry,  empty, sick or weak, at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to God,  even though you may find little joy in it. This is true of all believing prayer."

"Blessed are those who, when grace is withdrawn, find no consolation in themselves but only continuing tribulation and thick darkness, and yet they do not despair.  Rather, strengthened by faith, they endure  courageously, convinced that they do indeed see him who is invisible."

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"Our hope is greater than our desert."

"One single act done with aridity of spirit is worth more than many done with feelings of devotion."