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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

Bernard of Clairvaux

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Fool Masters Spiritual
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
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
O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.
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Blessed Evoke Heart Name
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
Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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Damage Inspirational Myself
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
If she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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Before Goal Grow Shall Shows
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
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
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
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
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
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
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
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor’s glory.
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Benefactor Benefits Pride Use
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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Hoe Lesson Needs
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
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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Fields Scripture Woods
Death is the gate of life.
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Death Dying Gates
I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him.
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Heart Prayer Regard Thinking
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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Catholic House Together
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
Wherever…thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.
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Art Christian Prayer
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue

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