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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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Humility Path Study
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
Love me, love my dog.
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Dog Love Wisdom
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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Appearance Body Flesh Soul
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
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
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
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue
Wherever…thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.
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Art Christian Prayer
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Firsts Learning Love
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Fool Masters Spiritual
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking
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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