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There is no greater misery than false joys.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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Fields Scripture Woods
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
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
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
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
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
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Catholic Desire Wish
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Firsts Learning Love
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
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
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Arms Joyful Names
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
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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