The good news is that we are lovable and we are loved (that is, we have a "soul," we have an identity, we are somebody). The bad news is that we neither know it nor believe it. . . . We are always in danger of suffering from a sort of spiritual amnesia. When we forget our dignity (our true worth), we forget the source of that worth. Sin is a sort of willful forgetfulness of how great and wonderful we are.
— Alan Jones, Soul Making