Richard Lovelace claims the main reason Christians do not change is a failure really to grasp God's grace:
"Christians who are no longer sure that God loves and accepts them in Jesus, apart from their present spiritual achievements, are subconsciously radically insecure persons....Their insecurity shows itself in pride, a fierce defensive assertion of their own righteousness and defensive criticism of others....They cling desperately to legal, Pharisaical righteousness, but envy, jealousy and other branches of the tree of sin grow out of their fundamental insecurity."
Richard Lovelace, Dynamics of Spiritual Life, 211-212
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