This quote is from a Quaker author, Hannah Whitall Smith, in The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life, Chapter 5:

“You have given yourself to Him over and over daily, perhaps for months, but you have invariably come away from your seasons of consecration wondering whether you have really given yourself at all, and whether He has really taken you; and because you have not felt any change, you have concluded at last, after many painful tossings, that the thing has not been done. Do you know, dear believer, that this sort of perplexity will last forever, unless you cut it short by faith? You must come to the point of reckoning the matter to be an accomplished and settled thing, and must leave it there before you can possibly expect any change of feeling whatever.”

Her description closely expresses my feelings this past week, and I find it very reassuring.