"Imagine yourself as a living house. God
comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He
is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and
so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But
presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and
does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that
He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing
out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making
courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage
but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."
— C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, p. 205
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