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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
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Forgiving Heart Taken
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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Financial Mazes Stewardship
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
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Enjoyment Love May Order
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
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
With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear.
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Christian Fall Heart
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
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
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
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
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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Bliss Earth Thee

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