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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

Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
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Giving Grace Order
The measure of love is love without measure.
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Inspirational Love Measure
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
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
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Humility Important Three
Death is the gate of life.
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Death Dying Gates
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
All things are possible to one who believes.
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All Believe Possible Things
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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Engagement Love Relationship
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
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist’s hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross
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Angel Benefit Hands led Motivated Self
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 heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.
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Heart Jesus Sweet Wound

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