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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

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
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Facts Found Grace High Holy
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
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
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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Faith God Love Profitable
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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Heart Jesus Song
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
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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Heart Prayer Regard Thinking
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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Fields Scripture Woods
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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Compassion Fall Fraught Gracious Jesus
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Arms Joyful Names
Death is the gate of life.
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Death Dying Gates

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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