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Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.
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Fatherland Heaven Joy Memories Presence
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
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it’s own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it’s own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.
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Emotion Love May Recompose Sake Sufficient
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
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
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
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
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
My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.
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Children Kings Promise Upon Urge
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
There is no greater misery than false joys.
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Greater Joy Misery
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
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
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Catholic Desire Wish
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

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