He (God) will have us even though we prefer everything else to Him because there is 'nothing better' now to be had.

“Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky,…”

“For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or cont…”

“Ransom preferred to work as a volunteer rather than in admitted slavery: and he…”

“My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she f…”