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

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
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Humility Important Three
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
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
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.
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Dreadful Offensiveness Presence
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
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
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Jesus Kings Said Something
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
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
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
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Looking Praying Thinking
The measure of love is love without measure.
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Inspirational Love Measure
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
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
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Past Regret Resolving Saint

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

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