Idleness is an enemy of the soul.

Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.

Run while you have the light of life!

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.