Thursday of Lent Week 4

"Think concerning yourself always that you need teaching, in order that you be found a wise man during your whole life. Do not hand down to others as your own, the practical ethics that you have not yet reached, lest you be put to shame by yourself and your deception appear from the comparison with your behavior. But if you speak concerning what is becoming, speak as one belonging to the class of pupils, not as an authority, having before subdued your self and shown yourself as being less than your listener. Then you will give also your hearers an example of humility and your words will spur them unto the course towards [good] works and you will be honored in their eyes" (from The Mystical Treatises of Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 4, 47).