“Imagine two souls appearing before the sight of God, one in the state of grace, the other in the state of sin….Just as a father recognizes his own son because of likeness of nature, so too Christ recognizes the soul in the state of grace in virtue of resemblance to Him, and says to the soul: “Come ye blessed of My Father: I am the natural Son, you are the adopted son. Come into the Kingdom prepared for you from all eternity.”  God looks into the other soul that is in the state of sin and has not that likeness and says to it “I know you not” – and it is a terrible thing not to be known by God.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen