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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.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
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
Love me, love my dog.
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Dog Love Wisdom
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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Heart Jesus Song
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
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
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
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
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
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
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
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Believe Book Nature Satisfaction Tree

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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