This world, not our home

The Christian doctrine of suffering explains "a very curious fact about the world we live in... The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment He has scattered broadcast... Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home".

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, p. 115