C.S. Lewis

"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him......Images, I must suppose, have their use or they would not have been so popular. (It makes little difference whether they are pictures and statues outside the mind or imaginative constructions within it.) To me, however, their danger is more obvious. Images of the Holy easily become holy images-sacrosanct.
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself......Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of His presence? The Incarnation is the supreme example; it leaves all previous ideas of the Messiah to ruins."

Excerpt from "A Grief Observed", by C.S. Lewis