[Quix]

Certainly faith is a gift of God.

Though our exercise of it may involve some willfulness.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Yep, we're a willful lot. Good thing God sends the Holy Spirit to conform our wills to His.

"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" -- Ephesians 2:4-6