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Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
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
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Humility Important Three
Death is the gate of life.
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Death Dying Gates
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
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
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Forgiving Heart Taken
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
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Humble Humility Lows
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
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 Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
There is no greater misery than false joys.
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Greater Joy Misery
Ingratitude is the soul’s enemy… Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
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Grace Soul Wind

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

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