To these reasons I will add a third

"To these reasons I will add a third. I have not persuaded today? But I
shall persuade, perhaps, tomorrow. Or even if not tomorrow, I may after
tomorrow, or even the day following. He who today heard and rejected the
word, perhaps will hear and obey tomorrow; he who spurns the word today and
tomorrow, perhaps in a few more days will attend to that which is spoken.
For even the fisherman often casts his net the whole day in vain; and in
the evening, when he is about to depart, captures and takes home the fish
that had escaped him all the day long. And if, on account of frequent want
of success, we were to live in idleness, and cease from all work, our whole
life would be brought to nought, and not only spiritual affairs but also
temporal would be ruined. For also the husbandman, if on account of the
once, or twice, or oft-repeated inclemency of the season, were to abandon
his work, we all should perish by famine. Again, it the mariner, on account
of the once, or twice, or oft-recurring storms, were to forsake the sea,
the ocean would become impassable, and in that way also our life would be
quite marred. Thus, going through all employments, if men should act as you
urge and advise us to do, all would utterly fail, and the earth would
become uninhabitable. All men, therefore, having this in view, if once, or
twice, or if often they fail to gain the object of the labour in which they
spend their time, still apply themselves to the work again with
undiminished alacrity."

St. John Chrysostom, On the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.
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"But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world."
 Galatians 6:14

Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.