prevenient

• “Grace should not therefore be described as prevenient and subsequent.”

  Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas

• “Since grace causes the first effect in us, it is called prevenient in relation to the second effect.”

  Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas

• “In light of Scripture clearly teaching that depraved humans can't choose God, Arminians have to resort to a concept called prevenient grace (which nullifies the noetic effects of sin), so that humans can have a "technical loophole" which allows them to choose God of their own accord-but the concept of prevenient grace is found nowhere in Scripture!”

  The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow

• “(In Catholic theology, Mary, Jesus 'mother is also regarded as sinless by a special act of God called prevenient grace.)”

  LewRockwell.com Blog

• “That occurs for those Christians who, having reached the age of reason, choose to cooperate with what the Scholastics called "prevenient" grace: the divine activity we need in our souls order to accept all other divine gifts.”

  The attitude of beatitude

• “Those associative conceptions of the imagination, those eternally fixed types of action and passion, would come, not so much from the conscious invention of the artist, as from his self-surrender to the suggestions of an abstract reason or ideality in things: they would be evolved by the stir of nature itself, realising the highest reach of its dormant reason: they would have a kind of prevenient necessity to rise at some time to the surface of the human mind.”

  Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

• “If she's not an example of God's prevenient grace and atonement, I don't know what is.”

  Archive 2006-10-01

• “John Wesley wrote of the concept of "prevenient grace," that unmerited favor of God that pursues us throughout our lives, seeking to restore us into a right relationship with Him.”

  a sad reminder

• “The 'Mother of God' of Roman Catholic dogma is, quite simply, the principle, prototype, and summing-up of the human creature cooperating in its own salvation by making use of its prevenient grace; as such, she is also the principle, prototype, and summing-up of the Church ...”

  Karl Barth on Mary

• “And a cordiallest brief nod of chinchin dankyshin to, well, patient ringasend as prevenient (by your leave), to all such occasions, detachably replaceable (thanks too! twos intact!).”

  Finnegans Wake

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