He who has ears for hearing, let him listen
BENEDICT OF NURSIABe careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
More Benedict of Nursia Quotes
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Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.
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Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline.
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Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
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And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.
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It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.
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It is time now for us to rise from sleep.
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Listen carefully, my child, to your master’s precepts, and incline the ear of your heart.
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Run while you have the light of life!
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He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.
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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.
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The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all.
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Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.
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Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
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The sleepy like to make excuses.
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Idleness is an enemy of the soul.
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