God is to you what you want Him to be. If you are self-satisfied, if you think you are worth something, then there is no place for God, because God wants to be everything. 

And if God is to be everything to you, it is necessary that you should be nothing, that you should possess nothing, that you should be nothing so that He may open your heart to receive the gift of His Infinite Love.

Spiritual Exercises of Arliano, June 15th, 1980