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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.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Life Nature Religion
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
The measure of love is love without measure.
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Inspirational Love Measure
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
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
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
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 rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.
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Fatherland Heaven Joy Memories Presence
All things are possible to one who believes.
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All Believe Possible Things
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
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Past Regret Resolving Saint
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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Engagement Love Relationship

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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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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