Oliver O'Donovan: How the Spirit Shapes Us Ethically

The Spirit evokes our free response as moral agents to the reality of redemption....He confirms and restores us as moral agents, which is to say, as the subjects of our actions, not as divorced subjectivity which subsists in its own self-awareness.....To do this he does not take over our subjecthood; he enables us to realize it. In a sentence of critical importance for theological ethics St. Paul wrote 'God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure (Phil. 2:13)....the willing and the working...are man's willing and working.

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--Oliver O'Donovan in Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics