Stop tinkering with your soul

Like the eye which sees everything in front of it
and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the
Object upon which it rests and pays no attention
to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we
do not see ourselves--blessed riddance. The one
who has struggled to purify himself and has had
nothing but repeated failures will experience real
relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and
looks away to the perfect One.
- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963), The Pursuit of God