[An ordinary simple Christian] kneels down /to say his prayers.
He is trying to get into touch with God.
But if he is a Christian he knows that [what is prompting him to pray] is also God: God, so to speak, inside him.
But he also knows that all his real knowledge of God comes /through Christ,
[the Man //who was God]—that Christ is standing beside him, helping him to pray, praying for him.
You see [what is happening].
God is the thing //to which he is praying—the goal () he is trying to reach.
God is also the thing inside him //which is pushing him on—the motive power.
God is also the road or bridge //along which he is being pushed /to that goal.
So that [the whole threefold life of the three-personal Being] is actually going on /in that ordinary little bedroom
//where an ordinary man is saying his prayers.
The man is being caught up /into the higher kinds of life
—what I called Zoe or spiritual life: he is being pulled /into God, by God, while still remaining himself.
From Mere Christianity
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis