" The people of God are farthest from reformation and revival when they are smugly content, like the church in Laodicea (Rev. 3:14-22). There is hope when by God’s grace they writhe in an agony of honest confession, horribly aware of the insidious and pervasive power of sin in their lives and their culture. "

― D.A. Carson , For the Love of God: Volume Two: A Daily Companion for Discovering the Riches of God's Word: 2