The Importance of God Whispering

When God does speak in the most obvious undeniable ways, it's usually relatively ineffective. Martin Luther once said our nature by the corruption of the first sin can become so deeply curved in on itself that it bends the best gifts of God's towards itself and enjoys them. St. Ignatius of Loyola taught that when our spiritual enemy can't deceive us as an angel of darkness, he comes instead disguised as anangel of light.