"God is pleased to represent Himself as a person very 'suspicious' both in respect of persons and things. Regarding our persons, we give Him cause enough, for we are sinners from our mother's womb; we make solemn vows and break them instantly; we cry for pardon, and still renew the sin; we desire God to try us once more, and we provoke Him ten times further; we use the means of grace to cure us, and we turn them into vices and opportunities of sin; we curse our sins, and yet long for them extremely; we renounce them in public, yet in private show them kindness; we leave little offenses, but our faith and our charity is not strong enough to master great ones; and sometimes we are shamed out of great ones, but entertain little ones; or if we disclaim both, yet we love to be betrayed into them." Jeremy Taylor.