You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
C. S. LewisWe do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.
C. S. LewisRegarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
C. S. Lewis