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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.

Bernard of Clairvaux

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it’s own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it’s own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.
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Emotion Love May Recompose Sake Sufficient
There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.
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Coming Men Saint Three
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
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
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
The measure of love is love without measure.
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Inspirational Love Measure
A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.
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Another Faithfully Men Saint
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
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
Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself… Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.
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Christ Cry Heart Love Mystery Nail Sacred
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Catholic Pastor Persecution
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
Death is the gate of life.
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Death Dying Gates
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

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