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

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
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
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
I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him.
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Heart Prayer Regard Thinking
It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist’s hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross
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Angel Benefit Hands led Motivated Self
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
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Giving Grace Order
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Humility Important Three
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
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Forgiving Heart Taken
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing.
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Loss Water Wise
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Life Nature Religion
The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole?
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Faith Heart Inspiration
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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Bliss Earth Thee

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