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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
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Giving Grace Order
Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Better Fur Humility Pride
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
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
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
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
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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Heart Jesus Song
The measure of love is love without measure.
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Inspirational Love Measure
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
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
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
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
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
Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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Damage Inspirational Myself
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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Hoe Lesson Needs

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