Moderate

 One place where "moderate" does not work out too well is things which are "important."  Nothing is moderately important.  Either it is important and we do  it or it is not important and we ignore it.  You might say, "Oh, that is not very important," so you ignore it.  How often do you clean your room?  Organize your cupboard?  So it is with the spiritual life and its practice.  A spiritual practice is never moderately important.  You either do it, or you don't.  To say, "Oh, I do pray, occasionally," is really not a spiritual practice.  It is more like rotating your car tires.  You do it when you really have to,  but rotating your tires is not a practice.  For me, to pray with earnest consistency, prayer must be very important.  Or else it is not important at all.