Both seized it. One of them held onto it and was safely drawn to the bank. But the other, seeing a great log come floating by, unwisely let go the rope and clung to the log, for it was bigger and apparently better to cling to. The log with the man on it went right over the vast abyss, because there was no union between the log and the shore. So when a man trusts to his works or to sacraments or to anything of that sort, he will not be saved, because there is no junction between him and Christ.
Faith is chosen again because it touches the springs of action.
Even in common things faith of a certain sort lies at the root of all. I wonder whether I am wrong if I say that we never do anything except through faith of some sort. If I walk across my study it is because I believe my legs will carry me. Columbus discovered America because he believed that there was another continent beyond the ocean, and the Pilgrim fathers colonized it because they believed that God would be with them on those rocky shores. Faith in its natural form is an all prevailing force which enters into all manner of human actions.