What Total Depravity is NOT and What it IS

A. H. Strong showed what depravity is not, then what it is, and then said: "Yet there is a certain remnant of freedom left to man. The sinner can (a) avoid the sin against the Holy Ghost; (b) choose the less sin rather than the greater; (c) refuse altogether to yield to certain temptations; (d) do outwardly good acts, though with imperfect motives; (e) seek God from motives of self-interest . . . The sinner can do one very important thing, viz., give attention to divine truth." 

(Systematic Theology, p. 640)