“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.â€
D. A. Carson, For the Love of God, Volume Two (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 1999), 23.
(thanks to Nate Hoeldtke for forwarding this via email)
#1 by Robert Murphy on January 2, 2009 - 1:08 am
Good thought. Thanks for sharing.
#2 by Mom on January 2, 2009 - 3:34 am
Excellent post. I love it and will read and re-read it.
#3 by Erik on January 5, 2009 - 3:55 pm
Any idea what Carson Book or article this came from?
#4 by Andrew Flanagan on January 5, 2009 - 5:04 pm
Erik,
don’t have the book, but I found this reference to it on another website:
D. A. Carson, For the Love of God, Volume Two (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 1999), 23.
I updated the post with the reference too.