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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

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Arms Joyful Names
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
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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Fields Scripture Woods
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking
Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
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Giving Grace Order
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
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Looking Praying Thinking
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
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
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Inspirational Life Vanity
The measure of love is love without measure.
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Inspirational Love Measure
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
And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
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Anything Concentrate Man Surprising
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will

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