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The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole?

Bernard of Clairvaux

He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
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
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine
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
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue
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
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
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
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
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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Fields Scripture Woods
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
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?
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Cease Except Feed Fire Hate Self
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
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

The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole?

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