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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
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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Church Command Jesus Leader Minister
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
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
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
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
God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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Giving Gods Will Knows
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Catholic Pastor Persecution
The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father’s portion?
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Between Children Father God Portion Son
The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.
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Heart Jesus Sweet Wound
there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self’s sake. 2) Love of God for self’s sake. 3) Love of God for God’s own sake. 4) Love of self for God’s sake.
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Heart Love Self Soul
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
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
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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Financial Mazes Stewardship
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

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