God, Personal

"Men are reluctant to pass over from the notion of an abstract and negative deity to the living God. I do not wonder... It is always shocking to meet life where we thought we were alone. 'Look out', we cry, 'it's alive!'...An impersonal god, well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads - better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap - best of all. But God Himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at infinite speed, the hunter, king, husband - that is quite another matter. There comes a moment when the children who have been playing at burglars hush suddenly was that a 'real' footstep in the hall? There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that. Worse still, supposing He had found us?"

- C.S. Lewis: