I will warn you against another error in your practice of this good resolution: We will do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken. This is self-confidence, and a dependence on your own strength. What a warning against this error is Saint Peter's denial of his Master! Yet we are prone to set about our duties in our own strength, forgetting that it is Heavenly help and grace alone which can make us efficient for any good work. Remember that it is God who worketh in you, both to mill and to accomplish. Seek ever, therefore, the support of that Holy Spirit, promised to all who ask for it. Let not the help of God be unmeaning and formal words, but moving you to seek in faith, and with persevering earnestness, an essential as well as great blessing. Add, if not in words, in your heart, to your resolution of obedience and submission to God's will, "the Lord being my helper." Thus warned and instructed, go forward in the fulfillment of what God calls you to do or bear. If you seriously reflect you will easily find that you have such calls to action or patient obedience every day and hour of your lives, and to meet them in heartfelt, humble dependence on divine help.
- text taken from Daily Bread - Bring a Few Morning Meditations for the Use of Catholic Christians by Father Richard Waldo Sibthorp