amend your life

'By the love and respect we owe to Jesus Christ our Lord, I beg of you to begin without delay to amend your lives with the greatest care, so that at the last day, when it will be necessary to give an exact account of them, you will be found worthy.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

ungrateful beyond all expression

'He is ungrateful beyond all expression, and in heart altogether wrong, who, in the face of God's benefits which cost Him so much does not offer himself, and does not see the obligation he is under to devote himself entirely to the honor and glory of our Lord and Saviour.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

worldly music

"...A fourth kind [of evil] consists in using immodest and amatory words in lascivious songs; to the lovers of this world, nothing is sweeter, although nothing be more dangerous than such words and songs. Lascivious songs are the songs of Sirens, who enchant men and then plunge them into the sea and devour them..."

St. Robert Bellarmine, The Art of Dying Well (extract)

nothing more perfect

You can do nothing more salutary, sweeter, more joyful, more worthy, higher, happier, more perfect, or more blessed, than to love and praise God ardently. This I say one hundred times; this I repeat one thousand times-there is no study more sublime, no work more eminent, than to love and praise God, your Creator and Redeemer, with your whole heart, with your whole soul, with your whole mind, and with your entire strength. Do this so long as you live, feel, and understand; accomplish this by word and work, by night and day, at morning, noon, and evening, at every hour and at every moment.

Thomas a Kempis, Vera Sapientia or True Wisdom