"People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.
We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance;
we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom;
we drift toward superstition and call it faith.
We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation;
we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped
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we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."
-D.A. Carson’s, For the love of God : A daily companion for discovering the riches of God’s Word. Volume 2 (25)
*emphases by me.
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