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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.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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Financial Mazes Stewardship
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
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
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
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Humble Humility Lows
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor’s glory.
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Benefactor Benefits Pride Use
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
There is no greater misery than false joys.
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Greater Joy Misery
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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Another Faithfully Men Saint
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
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Believe Book Nature Satisfaction Tree
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
O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.
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Blessed Evoke Heart Name
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Firsts Learning Love

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