Help! Need to find a quote

I remember reading a Lewis quote some years ago that was absolutely
beautiful, and which I need at this point in my life, but I cannot
find it. It is something along the lines of " our soul is like a
little cottage, and we ask Christ to come in and do a little remodel,
but it is much more painful than we had planned, and we protest that
all that work isn't really necessary, but when He finishes, instead of
the larger little cottage we had envisioned, we are left a mansion."
Does anyone know where I could find the actual quote?

It was inscribed by MerryOne in the annals dated 2/5/05 9:32 AM:
> I remember reading a Lewis quote some years ago that was absolutely
> beautiful, and which I need at this point in my life, but I cannot
> find it. It is something along the lines of " our soul is like a
> little cottage, and we ask Christ to come in and do a little remodel,
> but it is much more painful than we had planned, and we protest that
> all that work isn't really necessary, but when He finishes, instead of
> the larger little cottage we had envisioned, we are left a mansion."
> Does anyone know where I could find the actual quote?

It's the following passage from Mere Christianity (from the chapter, "Is
Christianity Hard or Easy?")

>> I find I must borrow yet another parable from George MacDonald.
>> Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that
>> house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He
>> is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and
>> so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not
>> surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a
>> way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on
>> earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite
>> adifferent house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new
>> wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers,
>> making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a
>> decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to
>> come and live in it Himself.

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Keith Schooley