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

Bernard of Clairvaux

Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
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Giving Grace Order
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
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking
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
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
Death is the gate of life.
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Death Dying Gates
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
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
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
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
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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Catholic House Together
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

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