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St. Alphonsus Liguori’s classic work on salvation first focuses on the necessity and power of prayer, and then the conditions necessary to make it efficacious with God. Then Liguori explores the nature of grace, and shows that the grace of prayer is given to all.

and offered to all such strength as will not only put us in the way of being able to resist, but will also make us resist; ‘for we can do all things in him who strengthens us’ by his grace, if we humbly ask for it.”1 We can do all things with God’s help, which is granted to every one who humbly seeks it; so that we have no excuse when we allow ourselves to be overcome by a temptation. We are conquered solely by our own fault, because we would not pray. By prayer all the snares and power of the devil
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