“We must therefore be careful, whenever we feel these things happening invisibly within us and with us, not to ascribe them to our own will, which is weak; nor to any necessity on the part of God, for there is none; but solely to that grace of which He is full. It is grace which arouses our free choice, by sowing the seed of the good thought; it is grace which heals our free choice, by changing its disposition; it is grace which strengthens it so as to lead it to action; it is grace which saves it from experiencing a fall. Grace so cooperates with free choice, however, that only in the first case does grace go a step ahead of it; in the other cases, grace accompanies free choice. What has begun by grace alone is completed by grace and free choice together, in such a way that they contribute to each new work not singly, but jointly—not by turns, but at the same time. It is not as if grace did half the work and free choice the other half; but each does the whole work, according to its own contribution—with this one qualification: the whole work is done in free choice, but the whole work is done by grace.” On Grace and Freewill, Bernard of Clairvaux.