I received this from Beverly J Williams [willbj@juno.com]

There was a fire one night at a convent and several retired nuns who lived on the fourth floor were trapped by the fire. They were praying for the Lord to show them a way out of the fire when one of the sisters screamed, “We need to take off our robes, tie them together and climb down to safety.”

Later as they were recounting the event to reporters, they were asked if they were afraid of the crude rope breaking. “Oh, no,” they said. “You see, old habits are hard to break.”