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Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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 four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self’s sake. 2) Love of God for self’s sake. 3) Love of God for God’s own sake. 4) Love of self for God’s sake.
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Heart Love Self Soul
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
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
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
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
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Firsts Learning Love
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
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
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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Life Nature Religion
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
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
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Arms Joyful Names
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
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander

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