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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Catholic Pastor Persecution
My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.
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Children Kings Promise Upon Urge
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
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Jesus Kings Said Something
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
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
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing.
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Loss Water Wise
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
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
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
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
Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself… Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.
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Christ Cry Heart Love Mystery Nail Sacred
All things are possible to one who believes.
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All Believe Possible Things
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

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

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