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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor’s glory.
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Benefactor Benefits Pride Use
Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.
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Fatherland Heaven Joy Memories Presence
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
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
If she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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Before Goal Grow Shall Shows
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
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine
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
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.
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Angel Faithful Father Powerful
Do what Jesus says… what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].
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Church Command Jesus Leader Minister
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
Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;”Be thou whole,” say openly:”I forgive thee all.
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Agony Beloved Cross Forgive
Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
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Children Mother Religious
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
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
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
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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Catholic House Together
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
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
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son.
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Christian Honored More Mother Son
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture

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