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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole?
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Faith Heart Inspiration
God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.
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Christian Enemies Grid Kings War
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
From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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Bliss Earth Thee
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it’s own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it’s own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.
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Emotion Love May Recompose Sake Sufficient
There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.
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Coming Men Saint Three
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
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
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
The measure of love is love without measure.
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Inspirational Love Measure
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
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Believe Book Nature Satisfaction Tree
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
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking
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
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

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

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