He gives us what we need - - C S Lewis

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

But God wills our good, and our good is to love Him (with the responsive love proper to creatures) and to love Him we must know Him; and if we know Him, we shall in fact fall on our faces.

If we do not, that only shows that what we are trying to love is not yet God -- though it may be the nearest approximation to God which our thought and fantasy can attain.

Yet the call is not only to prostration and awe; it is to a reflection of the Divine life, a creaturely participation in the Divine attributes which is far beyond our present desires.

We are bidden to 'put on Christ,' to become like God.

That is, whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. 

Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

                -- From The Problem of Pain