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A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Animal Creature Dog
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
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
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
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Jesus Kings Said Something
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
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
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue
Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught.
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Compassion Fall Fraught Gracious Jesus
Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
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Arm Delight Knowledge Soul Two Understanding
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing.
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Loss Water Wise
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
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
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Arms Joyful Names
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking
Death is the gate of life.
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Death Dying Gates
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

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A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

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