The Divine Grace

“Who will be so presumptuous and so blind as to think that he can preserve his own without daily help from the Lord? This is how it is, especially in view of what the Lord Himself says: ‘As a branch cannot bear fruit all by itself but must remain part of the vine, neither can you unless you remain in Me’ (Jn. 15:4). ‘You can do nothing without Me’ (Jn. 15:5). Since He says this, since He asserts that nobody can show forth the fruits of the Spirit unless he has been inspired by God and has worked with God, it would be foolish, indeed sacrilegious, to attribute any good actions of ours to our own effort rather than to the divine grace.”
~St. John Cassian