Disciplines as Works, Opposed to Faith

"Our basic problem with God is that we just do not trust him as we should. He who is infinite goodness deserves and requires our complete trust. We had rather have something a bit more concrete to hold on to, like that tough, self-imposed fast I just went through. 'Now that's something I know I did.' But I wonder whom you did it for?"

David Altman OSB, from The Monastic Way edited by: Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, p. 71