Desiring to Desire God - Hardcoverby David W. Fagerberg (Author) To pray is best; to want to pray is good; to want to want to pray is the rst touch by God. A person who is in that last condition is the subject of this book, because it turns out that even desiring to desire can be an expression of love. All the authors quoted herein are Catholic spiritual writers from between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries whom David Fagerberg categorizes as theologians of abnegation because