If thou art not prepared to-day, how wilt thou be to-morrow?
To-morrow is uncertain, and how knowest thou that thou shalt live till to-morrow?
What availeth to live long, when we are so little the better?
Alas! long life doth not always mend us; but often increased guilt.
O, that we had spent but one day well in this world!
When it is morning, think thou mayst die before night.
When evening comes, dare not to promise thyself the next morning.
Be therefore always in readiness; and so live that death may never take thee unprepared.
Many die suddenly, and when they look not for it; for “in such an hour as you think not, the Son of man cometh.” Matt. xxiv: 44.
When that last hour shall come, thou wilt have a far different opinion of thy whole life.