Imitation Of Christ

Our imitation of God in this life - that is, our willed imitation, as distinct from any likenesses which He has impressed upon our natures or our states - must be an imitation of God Incarnate. Our model is the Jesus, not only of Calvary, but of the workshop, the roads, the crowds, the clamorous demands and surly oppositions, the lack of all peace and privacy, the interruptions. For this, so strangely unlike anything we can attribute to the divine life in itself, is apparently not only like, but is, the divine life operating under human conditions.

- C. S. Lewis in "The Four Loves"