Every word of Christ that we ponder deeply opens to us a vision of beauty or excellence — something very lovely, a fragment of Christ’s own image - and we should instantly strive to paint the vision on our own life, to get the beauty, the excellence, the loveliness into our own life. Let us learn to be loyal to the word of Christ; not only to know it and ponder it and meditate upon it, but to do it, and to allow it thus to shape and mould our whole being into its own holy beauty. If we hide Christ’s words in our hearts, they will transform us into his likeness.