Never Awed by God's Greatness

John Piper:

Earnestness is not excessive in our day. It might have been once. And, yes, there are imbalances in certain people today who don't seem to be able to relax and talk about the weather. But it seems to me that the far greater sadness in our day is people who are simply unable to be reverent. They seem to have never been awed by the greatness of God. They only know one mode of relationship: casual.

—John Piper, Five Points: Towards a Deeper Experience of God's Grace (Christian Focus: Scotland, 2013), 78.