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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

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
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
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
Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself… Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.
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Christ Cry Heart Love Mystery Nail Sacred
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Fool Masters Spiritual
And thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.
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Church Loss Present Reservoir Superbundant
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
There is no greater misery than false joys.
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Greater Joy Misery
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Animal Creature Dog
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
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
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
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love

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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