Closet Calvinists?

In his current series on The Doctrines of Grace that is airing on Grace to You, John MacArthur suggested the other day that most of us, even if we claim to be Arminian, are "Closet Calvinists." He asked (my paraphrase) What do you do when you want to see someone get saved? You pray. How do you pray? Do you ask that they would have enough sense to come to Christ on their own ? No, you ask GOD to save them. We are all closet Calvinists."
There is much truth to what he said. Think with me for a minute: when we ask God to save someone, what exactly are we asking Him to do? If we believe that God cannot overcome man's resistance, and that His inward call is not sufficient for one to come, then we are in effect asking God to do something that we believe He cannot do. This theology has God's hands tied behind His back and make His influence on the soul no more powerful than ours. Jonah was right when he said, Salvation is of the Lord.