I recently finished reading "The Weight of Glory" by C.S. Lewis, and was struck by a few quotes:

(On the relation of earth and heaven)  "So with us.  'We know not what we shall be'; but we may be sure we shall be more, not less, than we were on earth.  Our natural experiences (sensory, emotional, imaginative) are only like [a] drawing, like penciled lines on flat paper.  If they vanish in the risen life, they will vanish only as pencil lines vanish from the real landscape, not as a candle flame that is put out but as a candle flame which becomes invisible because someone has pulled up the blind, thrown open the shutters, and let in the blaze of the risen sun. (p.111)"

"The earliest Christians were not so much like a man who mistakes the shell for the kernel as like a man carrying a nut which he hasn't yet cracked.  The moment it is cracked, he knows which part to throw away.  'Till then he holds on to the nut, but not because he is a fool but because he isn't. (p.133)"

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. (p.140)"

"As a color first reveals its true quality when placed by an excellent artist in its pre-elected spot between certain others...so we shall then first be true persons when we have suffered ourselves to be fitted into our places. (p.173)"