At the risk of 2 Doug Wilson quotes in a row, I offer this:
The unregenerate heart has only two motions it can make -- that of trying to climb to God on its own, or trying to run away from God.
The unregenerate heart can understand the holiness of God and flee from Him, or misunderstand it, and try to attain to it on its own. Only the converted heart can see the holiness as gladness, and the gladness as righteousness, and the righteousness as glory, and love all of it. As John Piper has argued concerning 1 Tim. 1:11, we have to have our eyes opened so that we see the gospel of the glory of the gladness of God. Would this really resolve all these issues? Taste and see.
— Doug Wilson
