People do not drift towards holiness. Apart from
grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate towards godliness or prayer, or
obedience to scripture, or faith and delight in the Lord. We drift toward
compromise and we call it tolerance. We drift toward disobedience and we call
it freedom. We drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline
of lost self-control and we call it relaxation. We slouch toward prayerlessness
and delude ourselves into thinking we've escaped legalism. We slide toward
godlessness and convince ourselves that we have been liberated.
—D.A. Carson, quoted by Mark Fodale, 3/17/2013.
