Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the prรฉcis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.
C. S. LewisNo mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly
C. S. LewisPart of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis