…the prayers offered in a state of dryness are those which please Him best…our cause is never more in danger than 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.

~~Screwtape, Mentor of novice demons
From Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis