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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
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
Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
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Humble Lasts Next
Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.
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Dreadful Offensiveness Presence
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
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Believe Book Nature Satisfaction Tree
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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Engagement Love Relationship
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
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Looking Praying Thinking
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
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Jesus Kings Said Something
And thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.
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Church Loss Present Reservoir Superbundant

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