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So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

Bernard of Clairvaux

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Able Answers Righteousness Sin
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
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
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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Appearance Body Flesh Soul
O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.
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Blessed Evoke Heart Name
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Firsts Learning Love
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
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
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
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
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Inspirational Life Vanity
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
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Humble Humility Lows
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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Fatherland Heaven Joy Memories Presence
There is no greater misery than false joys.
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Greater Joy Misery

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

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