“’…since I didn’t do something I heard in church’ someone will tell me, ‘how can I come again?’; Come to hear again the divine Word, and try this time to implement it. If you put medicine over your wound and it doesn’t heal the same day, won’t you put it on again the next day? If the wood cutter who wants to cut a cherry tree doesn’t manage to knock it down with the first strike, won’t he hit it a second and fifth and tenth time? You also do the same thing.”
(St John Chrysostom on Church Attendance)