Luther and Lewis

It is also necessary to keep within bounds and not make too much of calling her “Queen of Heaven,” which is a true-enough name and yet does not make her a goddess who could grant gifts or render aid, as some suppose when they pray and flee to her rather than to God. She gives nothing, God gives all, as we will see in the words that follow.—Martin Luther, Magnificat, AE 21:327, 328.

The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight, compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on earth is mere milk and water.—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 235.