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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 does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
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Cease Except Feed Fire Hate Self
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
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
All things are possible to one who believes.
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All Believe Possible Things
If she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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Before Goal Grow Shall Shows
A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.
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Another Faithfully Men Saint
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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Action Good Life Work
there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self’s sake. 2) Love of God for self’s sake. 3) Love of God for God’s own sake. 4) Love of self for God’s sake.
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Heart Love Self Soul
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
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
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
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
Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son.
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Christian Honored More Mother Son
Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Better Fur Humility Pride

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