If she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXThe 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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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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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it’s own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it’s own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.
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Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught.
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Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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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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Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son.
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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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