"Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say. - C. S. Lewis

That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.