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

Bernard of Clairvaux

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
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Past Regret Resolving Saint
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
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue
there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self’s sake. 2) Love of God for self’s sake. 3) Love of God for God’s own sake. 4) Love of self for God’s sake.
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Heart Love Self Soul
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
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking
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
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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Fields Scripture Woods
God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.
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Christian Enemies Grid Kings War
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
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
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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Faith Heart Inspiration
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

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