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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

Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Firsts Learning Love
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Humility Important Three
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
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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Heart Jesus Song
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
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
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
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Past Regret Resolving Saint
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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Catholic House Together
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
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
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding

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

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