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The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Better Fur Humility Pride
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
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
Death is the gate of life.
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Death Dying Gates
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
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
I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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Comprehend God Knows Own
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
For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
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Facts Found Grace High Holy
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
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
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue
There is no greater misery than false joys.
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Greater Joy Misery
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
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

The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth

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