We are always pre-disposed to make our experience the standard for our judgment of others.  One of life’s hardest lessons is that there is no justification for expecting that our neighbor is to traverse precisely the same path as that which we ourselves have followed…. The fact is that…we habitually over-emphasize the place of the emotions in the spiritual life.  We speak as if love (in the sense of conscious affection), rapture, overflowing peace were in themselves the essential characteristics of the life in Christ rather than the attitude of the soul toward God indicted by the qualities of faith and obedience… To be a Christian consists not in feeling, but in following; not in ecstasy, but in obedience.  

                                                                         William Littleboy (1916)