Judgement

Hezekiah's Psalm-Prayer

I said: At the height of my days, in the gates of Hades,
[ego dixi in dimidio dierum meorum vadam ad portas inferi--Vulgate]
I shall leave behind my remaining years.
[quaesivi residuum annorum meorum]
I said, No longer shall I see the salvation of God on the earth;
no longer shall I see a man from my kindred.
I have left behind the rest of my life;
it has gone out and departed from me
like the one who having pitched a tent takes it down;
my spirit in me became like the web
of a weaver who approaches to cut it off.
In that day I was given over as to a lion until morning;
thus He broke my bones,
for I was given over from day to night.

--Isaiah 38:10-13 (LXX, NETS)

From the Sayings of the Desert Fathers

xciv. An old man said, 'The man that every hour hath death before his eyes, will conquer meanness of soul.'

From the Sayings translated from the Greek by Paschasius the Deacon for the Abbot Martin of Dumes

From the Instrumenta Bonorum Operum

Mortem cotidie ante oculos suspectam habere.

Day by day remind yourself that you are going to die.

--The Holy Rule of Our Holy Father Benedict  4.47