Man is in love with creation, but he neither loves God nor believes His love. The creation is ruined, spoiled—not willingly, as man is, but still it is fallen.
Man’s will is gone away from God. His intellect may be all very well in its way; his disposition may be amiable, but you never find one who naturally seeks after God. Nay, you generally find the most amiable person the last to turn to God.
Man must be born entirely anew; he must come into heaven with a nature altogether distinct from that which he has.
Man will use his good qualities as well as his bad, just as an animal but with more intelligence. The eye must be opened.
It is a new ground and way of perception, by which we can even see the Kingdom of God.