"Ceremonialism rapidly develops, too often in proportion to the absence of spiritual life."
The quote above is from Alfred Edersheim's The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Book V, Chapter X, page 492.
In Proverbs we read that the The L-RD gives wisdom to the unassuming. So then, the our safeguard to a calculated devotion is to trust Him for humility.
Jesus taught us the Amidah, "lead us not to the test, but rescue us from ourselves."*
* [Matthew 6. GMV]
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