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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

Bernard of Clairvaux

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
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
Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
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Humble Lasts Next
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
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
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Arms Joyful Names
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
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Children Mother Religious
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander
Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
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Enjoyment Love May Order
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
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
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary

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