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

Bernard of Clairvaux

There is no greater misery than false joys.
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Greater Joy Misery
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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Humility Path Study
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
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear.
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Christian Fall Heart
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor’s glory.
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Benefactor Benefits Pride Use
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
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
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
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
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
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Forgiving Heart Taken
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Catholic Desire Wish
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Firsts Learning Love

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

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