God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.
C. S. LewisYou can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
C. S. LewisIf you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.
C. S. LewisIt seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
C. S. Lewis