"Rely not on your strength"

“Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink
because you belong to Christ,
amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward.

-- Mk 9:41-50

The gift of faith remains in one who has not sinned against it. But "faith apart from works is dead": when it is deprived of hope and love, faith does not fully unite the believer to Christ and does not make him a living member of his Body.

-- CCC 1815 

Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time