Run while you have the light of life!

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

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.

The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!

He who has ears for hearing, let him listen