God in the Dock

by C.S. Lewis

How, then, are people to behave at home? If a man can't be comfortable and unguarded, can't take his ease and `be himself' in his own house, where can he? That is, I confess, the trouble. The answer is an alarming one. There is nowhere this side of heaven where one can safely lay the reins on the horse's neck. It will never be lawful simply to `be ourselves' until `ourselves' have become sons of God. It is all there in the hymn - `Christian, seek not yet repose.'