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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.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Animal Creature Dog
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
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
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
Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Better Fur Humility Pride
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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Financial Mazes Stewardship
The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father’s portion?
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Between Children Father God Portion Son
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
The measure of love is love without measure.
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Inspirational Love Measure
Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
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Children Mother Religious
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
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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Damage Inspirational Myself
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

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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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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