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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Arms Joyful Names
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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Humility Path Study
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
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
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
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
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
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
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
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
Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Animal Creature Dog
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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Appearance Body Flesh Soul
What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
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Cease Except Feed Fire Hate Self
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
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Believe Book Nature Satisfaction Tree
Ingratitude is the soul’s enemy… Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
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Grace Soul Wind
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking

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