Interesting thoughts and I enjoy that Music of Life quote, I will have to write that one down :) I was hoping people would not look at it as a strictly religious statement because of the mention of God and Hell and so on because though it is a deceptively simple statement there's more than what you read on the surface, but just in my opinion :) because I greatly enjoy C.S. Lewis. The Screwtape Letters I read ages ago but I want to read them again now...I'll also check out the Mark Twain books.

I interpret it as a cautionary statement more than anything, that that temptation is always there, the tempatation to forget the source of what inspired and motivated one's talent to begin with (whatever individuals might view that ultimate source as) and that talent can indeed be a two-edged sword so handle it wisely.

As a side note interestingly enough I heard that C.S. Lewis was actually an atheist which I have trouble believing. Agnostic perhaps. But then again I don't know. His Out Of The Silent Planet series is also a good read.