Do you seek any further reward beyond that of having pleased God?
In truth, you know not how great a good it is to please Him.
Christ is wont to catch every man in the way of his own craft,
magicians with a star, fishers with a fish
All is in God's power, but so that our free-will is not lost.
It depends therefore on us and on Him.
We must first choose the good, and then He adds what belongs to Him.
He does not precede our willing, that our free-will may not suffer.
But when we have chosen, then He affords us much help.
It is ours to choose beforehand and to will, but God's to perfect and bring to the end.
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