His sins are refined and less offensive than before he took up religion, but the man himself is not a better man in the sight of
God. He may indeed be a worse one, for always God hates artificiality and pretense. Selfishness still throbs like an engine at the center of the man’s life. True, he may learn to “redirect” his selfish impulses, but his woe is that self still lives unrebuked and even unsuspected within his deep heart. He is a victim of religion without power.

From God’s pursuit of Man- A.W.Tozer