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Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Catholic Pastor Persecution
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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Hoe Lesson Needs
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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Confession Saint Sin
Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
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Arm Delight Knowledge Soul Two Understanding
Love me, love my dog.
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Dog Love Wisdom
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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Believe Father Love
Do what Jesus says… what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].
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Church Command Jesus Leader Minister
Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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Grace Humility Know
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Fool Masters Spiritual
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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Humility Path Study

Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.

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Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.

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