More on "crying out" of exodus 2

Some of us are not leading holy lives for the simple reason that we have too high an opinion of ourselves.  No man ever cries aloud for deliverance who has not seen his own wretchedness.  In other words, the only way to arrive at faith in the power of the Holy Spirit is along the road of self-despair.

--From "Men Made New" (London: IVF; Downers Grove, IVP, 1966), p. 74.

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