You cannot surprise God by the amount of good you do.

There are girls who enter upon the noviciate just as hard-working students go up for an examination, hoping to astonish their examiners by the amount they know.

That is well enough at the university, but it is all wrong in religion.

Work how you will, you cannot be perfect, and, if you were, you could only be what God made man before sin came.

Each student is trying to beat all the others, and one succeeds.