C.S. Lewis

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble as long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word love and look on things as though man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man and man does not exist for his own sake. Rev 4:11"Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created". We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest 'well pleased'. To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God: because He is what He is, His love must in the nature of things be impeded and repelled, by certain stains in our present character, and because He already loves us He must labour to make us lovable.