" Prayers profit very greatly: but it is when we also do something. For Prayers indeed cooperate & assist, but a man 'acts with' one that is acting, and 'assists' one that is himself also working. But if thou remainest idle, though wilt receive no great benefit. -- Chrysostom "

― John Chrysostom , Homilies On the Statues To the People of Antioch, Benedictine Edition (With Active Table of Contents)