Calvin on the effectiveness of God's grace opposed to our (in)ability to will good

These are selections from reading I did for our DTS meeting today.  They will come into fuller color if read in their original context (Calvin, Institutes. Book 2, Chap. 5), but I thought they were worth sharing as snippets.

"And yet, as the beneficence and liberality of God are manifold and inexhaustible, the grace which he bestows upon us, inasmuch as he makes it our own, he recompenses as if the virtuous acts were our own."  Wow!  God graces us to live for Him, and then rewards us for doing what He Himself enabled!

"...God does not measure the precepts of his law by human strength, but, after ordering what is right, freely bestows on his elect the power of fulfilling it."  What an amazing truth! God does not require what we can do, rather He gives us the power of doing what He requires!
 
"...God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly by his word.  By his Spirit illuminating their minds, and training their hearts to the practice of righteousness, he makes them new creatures, while, by his word, he stimulates them to long and seek for their renovation."

"In regard to the present question [what is the power of the Law in man?], while [the Law] explains what our duty is, it teaches that the power of obeying it is derived from the goodness of God, and it accordingly urges us to pray that this power be given us." (emphasis added)

"Being taught by precepts what the will of God is, we are reminded of our wretchedness in being so completely at variance with that will, and, at the same time, are stimulated to invoke the aid of the Spirit to guide us into the right path.  But as our indolence is not sufficiently aroused by precepts, promises are added, that they may attract us by their sweetness, and produce a feeling of love for the precept.  The greater our desire of righteousness, the greater will be our earnestness to obtain the grace of God.  And thus it is, that in the protestations 'if we be willing,' 'if thou shalt hearken,' the Lord neither attributes to us full power of willing and hearkening, nor yet mocks us for our impotence." (emphasis added)