Consider, sweetest of daughters, that security is normally the mother of neglicence. And so, you ought not to have hope in this life through which you may be rendered negligent. It is written: 'Blessed is the man who is always on his guard'. And again it is written: 'Serve the Lord with fear; with trembling bow down before him in homage.'
Thus, in the brief time of this life, fear must hold your mind, so it may rejoice afterwards without end, throught the joy of security.
May almight God fill your mind with the grace of his Holy Spirit, and after the tears shed daily in your prayers, lead you to eternal joys.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 472
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