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

Bernard of Clairvaux

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
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Inspirational Life Vanity
A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.
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Another Faithfully Men Saint
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
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
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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Fields Scripture Woods
God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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Giving Gods Will Knows
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander
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
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Catholic Desire Wish
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
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
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
Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
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Arm Delight Knowledge Soul Two Understanding

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