QUOTE: “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 legalism; we
slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
[D.A. Carson, For the Love
of God, vol. 1]
AUTHOR: Donald
Arthur Carson (born December 21, 1946) is a Canadian-born, Reformed Evangelical
theologian and professor of New Testament.
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