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What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself… Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.
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Christ Cry Heart Love Mystery Nail Sacred
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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Faith God Love Profitable
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander
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
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
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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Action Good Life Work
Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son.
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Christian Honored More Mother Son
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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Confession Saint Sin
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Catholic Pastor Persecution
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
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
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
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
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

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

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What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

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