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What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

Bernard of Clairvaux

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Arms Joyful Names
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
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
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
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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Heart Jesus Song
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
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Anything Concentrate Man Surprising
Do what Jesus says… what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].
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Church Command Jesus Leader Minister
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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Enjoyment Love May Order
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Catholic Desire Wish
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
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Humility Important Three
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
It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist’s hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross
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Angel Benefit Hands led Motivated Self

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