“If you mistake for your own merits what are really God’s gifts to you through nature, and if you are contented with simply being nice, you are still a rebel: and all those gifts will only make your fall more terrible, your corruption more complicated, your bad example more disastrous.  The Devil was an archangel once; his natural gifts were as far above yours as yours are above those of a chimpanzee.”

“God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man.”

CS Lewis, Mere Christianity