God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.
We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.
This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.
Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn't expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.
Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.
The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.
Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.
When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
God enabled me to speak with the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power.
