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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
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
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
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
Death is the gate of life.
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Death Dying Gates
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Catholic Pastor Persecution
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
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
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
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
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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Fields Scripture Woods
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Firsts Learning Love
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River

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