Unless the conception of God is something higher than a magnification of our own good qualities, our service and worship will be no more and no less than the service and worship of ourselves. Such a God may be a prop to our self-esteem but is, naturally, incapable of assisting us to win a moral victory and will be found in time of serious need to fade disconcertingly away.

J. B. Phillips, Your God Is Too Small, p. 54