Created as we were to the image and likeness of the Creator, we fell through our sin from God into ourselves, and fell from ourselves beneath ourselves into such an abyss of unlikeness that no hope was left. But there came the Son of God, eternal Wisdom; he bowed his heavens and came down. He made of himself a being who should be among us and like to us, so that we might grasp him; and he made us to be like to himself, so that we might be exalted by him.
William of Saint Thierry
