The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.
Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.
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!
He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.
It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.