I think I should say that it was like this: I saw suddenly that what had been wrong in me was that I had made myself the center of things, and God a kind of circumference.

When He did or allowed things, I said, 'Why does He ?'--_from my point of view_.

That is to say, I set up my ideas of justice and love and so forth, and then compared His with mine, not mine with His.

And I suddenly saw--or, rather, I knew already when I awoke--that this was simply stupid.

Even now I cannot imagine why I didn't see it before: I had heard people say it, of course--in sermons and books--but I suppose it had meant nothing to me.