The Lord said ‘I can give God’s grace. But you will have to supply human effort. Unless God’s grace and human effort come together, the result cannot be achieved’. (SSB 1974, p. 186)

Though this is true, we should not sit with folded hands, believing that a thing will accomplish itself, if and when God wills. Human effort is essential, and man must himself make a trial. He must use the strength and skill that he is endowed with, and resolve to proceed with the work, laying the responsibility for success on God. For, without the Grace of God, every effort will be rendered fruitless. (BPV, p. 229)