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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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Hoe Lesson Needs
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
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Fool Masters Spiritual
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
Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
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Children Mother Religious
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Animal Creature Dog
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Catholic Desire Wish
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
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
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
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Able Answers Righteousness Sin
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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Appearance Body Flesh Soul
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.
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Dreadful Offensiveness Presence

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

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