Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.
Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.
The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.
Grace is above praise and blame. I never read the bad stuff people write, but I never read the good stuff, either. Ever. I know who I am, and I know that God looks down on me and smiles. I know that - without a shadow of a doubt.
The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.