'I think one may be quite rid of the old haunting suspicion - which raises its head in every temptation - that there is something else that God - some other country ... into which He forbids us to trespass - some kind of delight wh. He "doesn't appreciate" or just chooses to forbid, but which wd. be real delight if only we were allowed to get it. The thing just isn't there . Whatever we desire is either what God is trying to give us as quickly as He can, or else a false picture of what He is trying to give us - a false picture wh. would not attract us for a moment if we saw the real thing.'
CS Lewis in Walter Hooper (Ed.), The Collected Letters Vol. II, p. 124.
