Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.
Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.
It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.
Run while you have the light of life!
Idleness is an enemy of the soul.
And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.