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Death is the gate of life.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
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
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.
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Benefit Pride Receiving Recieve
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander
From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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Bliss Earth Thee
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Catholic Desire Wish
Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
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Humble Lasts Next
The measure of love is love without measure.
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Inspirational Love Measure
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
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
Ingratitude is the soul’s enemy… Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
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Grace Soul Wind
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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Engagement Love Relationship

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