Wisdom from Frank Sheed

There is a rule of life, attributed to St. Augustine and to almost all the reasonably articulate saints since his day, and in any event verified in the experience of everyone who has made even the most meager attempt to live the Christian life. In its traditional form it runs, ‘Pray as if everything depended on God; work as if everything depended on you.’ Here, in action, is that wholehearted acceptance of two opposites which somehow fuses into one continuing act of successful living.

—Frank Sheed from Theology and Sanity