According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
The sanctified life is not the effect of our labors or achievements but of God’s love. It is not born of love alone or of our own virtue. For if it were from love alone, all ought to be saved. Again, if it were from our virtue his earthly appearing and the whole of his work would be unnecessary. But it is not from love alone or from our virtue but from God through God…. Virtue would have saved no one had there been no love…. For to become virtuous and to believe and to advance, this too was the work of the One who called us, even though it is something we can share. .
