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

Bernard of Clairvaux

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
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Inspirational Life Vanity
I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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Comprehend God Knows Own
God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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Giving Gods Will Knows
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
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Better Fur Humility Pride
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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Faith God Love Profitable
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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Heart Jesus Song
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
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing.
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Loss Water Wise
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander
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
From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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Bliss Earth Thee
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
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

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