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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

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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Damage Inspirational Myself
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
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Forgiving Heart Taken
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Humility Important Three
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
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine
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
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
And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
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Anything Concentrate Man Surprising
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him.
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Heart Prayer Regard Thinking
There is no greater misery than false joys.
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Greater Joy Misery
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

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