Growing in Grace

"Growing in grace most certainly does not mean an increasing satisfaction with myself. No, it is the very opposite. The more I walk in the light of God, the more plainly can I see the vileness of the "flesh" within me, and there will be an ever-deepening abhorence of what I am by nature. "For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not" (Romans 7:18) is not the confession of an unbeliever, nor even of a babe in Christ, but of the most enlightened saint. The only peace for the renewed heart is to look away from self to Christ."--Arthur Pink, "The Doctrine of Salvation"