God's Gifts
If, then, your good merits are God’s gifts, God does not crown your merits as your merits, but as His own gifts.
Augustine, “A Treatise on Grace and Free Will,” in Saint Augustin: Anti-Pelagian Writings, ed. Philip Schaff, trans. Peter Holmes, vol. 5, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, First Series (New York: Christian Literature Company, 1887), 450.