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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Animal Creature Dog
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
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
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
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
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Firsts Learning Love
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
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it’s own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it’s own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.
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Emotion Love May Recompose Sake Sufficient
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.
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Angel Faithful Father Powerful
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

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

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