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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.

Bernard of Clairvaux

I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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Comprehend God Knows Own
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
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
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
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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Damage Inspirational Myself
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
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
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
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;”Be thou whole,” say openly:”I forgive thee all.
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Agony Beloved Cross Forgive
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
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Looking Praying Thinking
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
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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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.

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