Sentence examples for efficacious grace from inspiring English sources

Is this an improvement, with respect to explaining the compatibility of efficacious grace with free will?

According to Bañez, efficacious grace is the supernatural counterpart of "physical premotion".

If God were to provide efficacious grace to each person, they could not fail to be saved.

He held that efficacious grace is, instead, a feeling of love, which he called a "delectatio victrix (victorious pleasure)" and which infallibly leads to a meritorious act.

But no similar claim can be made about the person whom God moves, by efficacious grace, to elicit a meritorious volition.

Arnauld rejects this position and instead identifies the efficacious grace with God's merciful will that the man arrive at the deliberate decision to give alms for the sake of God.

Arnauld grants that if God gives efficacious graces by particular volitions, then there are none that fail to have the proximate effect, which God intends they have by His absolute will.

"In following [Estius's opinion regarding efficacious grace], it is much easier to explain the efficacy of the grace, and to reconcile it with freedom, especially when we define free will, following St. Thomas, as a facultas ad opposita" (Letter to Bossuet, juillet 1694, OA, 3 664).

Arnauld's basic position on the compatibility of the intrinsic efficacy of grace with the freedom of the volitions produced by the grace, is that we know from Scripture and Tradition, supported by philosophical reflection on God's omnipotence (a) that the grace of Christ is intrinsically efficacious; and we know "from our own experience" (b) that our volitions of the relevant kind are free.

Such grace is efficacious if it infallibly has its effect.

As in the famous example of Augustine, a grace may be efficacious in that it produces the desire to be chaste, and yet not efficacious in that it fails to produces chastity itself.