Luther and Lewis

But when all seemed most unlikely—comes Christ, and is born of the despised stump [of Jesse], of the poor and lowly maiden! The rod and flower springs from her whom Sir Annas’ or Caiaphas’ daughter would not have deigned to have for her humblest lady’s maid. Thus God’s work and His eyes are in the depths, but man’s only in the heights.—Martin Luther, Magnificat, AE 21:302.

That little light seems to compel me to say that there are two kinds of good and bad. The first, such as virtue and vice or love and hatred besides being good or bad in themselves make the possessor good or bad. The second do not. They include such things as physical beauty or ugliness, the possession or lack of a sense of humor, strength or weakness, pleasure or pain.—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 223.