People
do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort people do not
gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith or delight in
the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; toward disobedience
and call it freedom; toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the
non-discipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward
prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we
slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.
D. A. Carson
