No matter how perfect may be our confidence in God, no matter how absolute our self-surrender into the hands of his providence for all that belongs to his good pleasure, we shall never be dispensed from the obligation of following the prescriptions of prudence.  The practice of this virtue, natural and supernatural, appertains to the signified will of God.  It is the established law, always binding, God wills to help us, but only on the condition that we do all that depends upon ourselves, according to the proverb: God helps those who help themselves.  To act otherwise would be to tempt God and to upset the order he has established. –Abbot Vital Lehodey ‘The Way that Leads to God’