O what great grace is offered to us

"Man threw away everything he had—his right  to speak freely, his communion with God, his  time in Paradise, his unclouded life—and went  out naked, like a survivor from a shipwreck.  But God received him and immediately clothed  him, and taking him by the hand gradually led  him to heaven. And yet the shipwreck was  quite unforgivable. For this tempest was entirely  due, not to the force of the winds, but to the  carelessness of the sailor. Yet God did not look  at this, but had compassion for such a great  disaster. … Why? Because, when no sadness   or care or labor or toil or countless waves of  desire assaulted our nature, it was overturned  and fell. And just as criminals who sail the sea  often drill through the ship with a small iron tool,  and let the whole sea into the ship from below,  so when the devil saw the ship of Adam (by  which I mean his soul) filled with many good  things, he came and drilled through it with his   voice alone, as if it were an iron tool, and stole  all his wealth and sank the ship itself. But God  made the gain greater than the loss, and brought  our nature to the royal throne." — St. John Chrysostom, A Year with the Church Fathers, p. 19