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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
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
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Catholic Desire Wish
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
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.
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Heart Jesus Sweet Wound
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
Death is the gate of life.
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Death Dying Gates
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
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
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
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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Fields Scripture Woods
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
Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Better Fur Humility Pride
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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