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by Dr. N.R. Needham
Chapter 5 of The Triumph of Grace: Augustine's Writings on Salvation - posted with permission
THE NEW LIFE IN CHRIST
‘Can we possibly, without utter absurdity, maintain that there first existed in anyone the good virtue of a good will, to entitle him to the removal of his heart of stone? How can we say this, when all the time this heart of stone itself signifies precisely a will of the hardest kind, a will that is absolutely inflexible against God? For if a good will comes first, there is obviously no longer a heart of stone.’Augustine, On Grace and Free Will, 29