See if you can guess what book this is from...


Good things as well as bad, you know, are caught by a kind of infection. If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life. You must get close to ...The thing that has them. They are not a prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to everyone. They are a great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very centre of reality. If you are close to it, the spray will wet you: if you are not, you will remain dry......

maybe there will be a prize for the right guess :)