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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

O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.
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Blessed Evoke Heart Name
Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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Believe Father Love
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
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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Confession Saint Sin
Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
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Children Mother Religious
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
Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
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Humble Lasts Next
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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Action Good Life Work
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
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Inspirational Life Vanity
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.
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Angel Faithful Father Powerful
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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Humility Path Study
A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.
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Another Faithfully Men Saint
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
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Able Answers Righteousness Sin
Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
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Arm Delight Knowledge Soul Two Understanding
I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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Comprehend God Knows Own
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
Death is the gate of life.
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Death Dying Gates
Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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Grace Humility Know
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
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
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
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Believe Book Nature Satisfaction Tree
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue

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