Our willed imitation

Our imitation of God in this life--that is, our willed imitation, as
distinct from any of the likenesses which He has impressed upon our
natures or our states--must be an imitation of God Incarnate: our
model is the Jesus, not only of Calvary, but of the workshop, the
roads, the crowds, the clamorous demands and surly oppositions, the
lack of all peace and privacy, the interruptions. For this, so
strangely unlike anything we can attribute to the Divine life in
itself, is apparently not only like, but is, the Divine life
operating under human conditions.
- C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), "The Four Loves"