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Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

Bernard of Clairvaux

What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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Fields Scripture Woods
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
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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Heart Jesus Song
My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.
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Children Kings Promise Upon Urge
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.
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Coming Men Saint Three
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
The measure of love is love without measure.
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Inspirational Love Measure
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Catholic Desire Wish
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
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
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
Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.
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Benefit Pride Receiving Recieve
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking

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