John Cassian, on Isa 1:19

“If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.”

“Who understands clearly how the sum of salvation is attributed to our will?…What does this all mean except that in each of these cases both the grace of God and our freedom of will are affirmed, since even by his own activity a person can occasionally be brought to a desire for virtue, but he always needs to be helped by the Lord.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.