C. S. Lewis on pleasure, gratitude, and adoration:

"Pleasures are shafts of glory as it strikes our sensibility. . . . I have tried . . . to make every pleasure into a channel of adoration. I don’t mean simply by giving thanks for it. One must of course give thanks, but I mean something different. . . . Gratitude exclaims, very properly, "How good of God to give me this." Adoration says, "What must be the quality of that Being whose far-off and momentary coruscations are like this!" One’s mind runs back up the sunbeam to the sun. . . . If this is Hedonism, it is also a somewhat arduous discipline. But it is worth some labour."

(Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer)