My lovely wife Jennifer pointed out this tidbit from Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel DeFoe (first page of the chapter, I Am Captured By Pirates). I think that although I am taking it out of its context, it is a highly accurate description of most people, including many Christians, today.
"...from whence I have since often observed how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases, viz., that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; nor ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men."
