prevenient

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He is almost entirely dependent upon God's "prevenient grace," which gives him the desire to do God's will, and "subsequent grace," which enables him to do it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Consequently, there can be no efficacious prayer without prevenient grace, and purely natural prayer is inefficacious for salvation.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

It follows that to be efficacious, prayer must be an effect of prevenient grace.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

There is none of that prevenient idealism which in the north draws a veil over the crudities of sense, and helps to illuminate the half-truths they reveal.

From Rome by Malleson, Hope

That the diligent worshipper doeth good to himself; not of himself but by the prevenient grace of God, which is freely given to all men without exception.

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann