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The measure of love is love without measure.

Bernard of Clairvaux

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.
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Christian Enemies Grid Kings War
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
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Facts Found Grace High Holy
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
All things are possible to one who believes.
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All Believe Possible Things
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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Giving Gods Will Knows
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor’s glory.
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Benefactor Benefits Pride Use
Love me, love my dog.
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Dog Love Wisdom
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
The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.
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Heart Jesus Sweet Wound
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
Death is the gate of life.
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Death Dying Gates
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

The measure of love is love without measure.

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