Luther and Lewis

And what is [the Christians’] offence? Their greatest sin is that they believe in Christ and praise and glorify the unspeakable grace which God has shown in Him to all the world, namely, that He alone can redeem us from sin and death and make us just and blessed, that they believe that human reason cannot of its own free will, its own might and good works prepare itself to receive the grace of God, much less merit eternal life.—Martin Luther, Exposition of 1 Peter

When it succeeds, I think the performers [musicians] are the most enviable of all men; privileged while mortals to honour God like angels, and for a few golden moments, to see spirit and flesh, delight and labour, skill and worship, the natural and the supernatural, all fused into that unity that they would have had before the Fall.—C. S. Lewis, The Business of Heaven, p. 292.