though accomplishing the good that one has willed is impossible. And in I,1,14 he states: “What in fact is left to free choice (libero arbitrio) in this mortal life is not that a person may fulfill righteousness when he wants to but that by suppliant piety he may turn to him by whose gift he may be enabled to fulfill it.” In other words a person may turn to God by his own initiative, although it is only God himself who gives the power to act rightly once the turn has been made. The notion that the