Troughs for His favor

"He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even in their stumbles. Do not be deceived, Wormwoood. Our cause is never more in danger then when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."


The Screwtape Letters Ch.8
C.S Lewis