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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

Bernard of Clairvaux

There is no greater misery than false joys.
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Greater Joy Misery
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.
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Blessed Evoke Heart Name
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.
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Christian Enemies Grid Kings War
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
Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Animal Creature Dog
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
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
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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Engagement Love Relationship
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
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
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Catholic Desire Wish
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

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

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