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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
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
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
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Catholic Pastor Persecution
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
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
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Catholic Desire Wish
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking
What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
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Cease Except Feed Fire Hate Self
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
Death is the gate of life.
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Death Dying Gates
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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Financial Mazes Stewardship
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
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Past Regret Resolving Saint
Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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Believe Father Love
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Arms Joyful Names
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

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

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