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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.

Bernard of Clairvaux

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
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Facts Found Grace High Holy
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
Ingratitude is the soul’s enemy… Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
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Grace Soul Wind
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole?
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Faith Heart Inspiration
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
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
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
Wherever…thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.
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Art Christian Prayer
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Arms Joyful Names
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
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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Confession Saint Sin
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
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Past Regret Resolving Saint
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Fool Masters Spiritual

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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