We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves. For what man is not disposed to rest in himself? Who, in fact, does not thus rest, so long as he is contented with his own endowments, and unconscious or unmindful of his misery? Every person, therefore, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find him.
John Calvin
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Man is so incapacitated by sin that unless God acts to rescue him nothing will happen.
The doctrine of the sovereignty of God, plus that of the depravity of man, leads us inexorably to the doctrine of "sovereign grace".
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