sort of things my friend got in the desert. Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But the map is
based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God - experiences compared with
which any thrills or pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused.
And secondly, if you want to get any further, you must use the map... In fact, that is just why a vague religion - all
about feeling God in nature, and son on - is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work... But you will not get to
Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic that way, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of
God in flowers or music. Neither will you be very safe if you for to sea without a map. In other words, Theology
is practical."
C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity. - pages 154-155.