He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.
When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund
The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.
You can't know, you can only believe - or not.
We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.
At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.