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>>15141438
This is the expected answer to OP's existential dilemma, and it is well-executed and meaningful, but is somewhat unsatisfying. Do you mean that one must be a *solidly good* person before one can feel God even in the slightest? What if one is powerfully struggling in the face of one's sins, and prays as fervently and authentically as possible? Is that not enough, to receive some sort of comforting reassurance? Is above-average labor+prayer+patience not enough? Then what is the point of prayers asking for God's presence in one's life, if one has to be a full Saint to feel it?

This whole question is the plot of Silence, and I am not sure a satisfactory answer has been given yet.