What we should be

"The Bible," we are told sometimes, "Gives us such a beautiful
picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at
all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it
says, "This is the form in which God created you, to which He has
restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of
Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you."
- Frederick Denison Maurice