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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.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
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
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
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
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
And thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.
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Church Loss Present Reservoir Superbundant
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing.
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Loss Water Wise
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
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

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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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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