By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.
It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.
There are women who fly their falcons at any game, little birds and all.
We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.
To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.