"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
Source: Mere Christianity, Book IV, ch. 9 "Counting the Cost"
Pain, life, shaping
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"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."
— Anonymous
Source: Popular saying (often misattributed to C.S. Lewis)
Pain, let go
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"We were promised suffering. It was part of the plan. We were even told, "Blessed are those who weep." I accept that. What I encountered wasn't unexpected. However, when it actually happens to you, not someone else, and is real, not imagined, it makes a world of difference."