The perfection of [God’s] relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defects, all our evils. That [person] is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to [God], “You are my refuge, because you are my home.”

George MacDonald, Creation in Christ