"Many have lost the favourable presence of God and are not aware of it; they have provoked God to withdraw from them, but are not sensible of their loss, nor ever complain of it. Their souls languish and grow weak, their gifts wither, every thing goes cross with them; and yet they impute not this to the right cause: they are not aware that God has departed from them, nor are they in any care to reconcile themselves to Him or recover His favor. When God has departed, we cannot do as at other times." (Matthew Henry) "The degredation of character may go on quite unconsciously, and it is only when some crisis arises in a man's life that he becomes aware that his moral strength has departed from him." (Great Texts of the Bible)