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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!

Bernard of Clairvaux

Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
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Giving Grace Order
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander
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
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Humility Important Three
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
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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Christian Honored More Mother Son
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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Appearance Body Flesh Soul
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Arms Joyful Names
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
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
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Catholic Pastor Persecution
Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;”Be thou whole,” say openly:”I forgive thee all.
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Agony Beloved Cross Forgive
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 rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue

Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!

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