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

Bernard of Clairvaux

Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Animal Creature Dog
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
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Firsts Learning Love
O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.
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Blessed Evoke Heart Name
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
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
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Able Answers Righteousness Sin
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Fool Masters Spiritual
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
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
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Looking Praying Thinking
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
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
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Anything Concentrate Man Surprising
The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole?
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Faith Heart Inspiration
Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Better Fur Humility Pride
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
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards

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

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