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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

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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Damage Inspirational Myself
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear.
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Christian Fall Heart
I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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Comprehend God Knows Own
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Arms Joyful Names
Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
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Children Mother Religious
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
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
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
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
there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self’s sake. 2) Love of God for self’s sake. 3) Love of God for God’s own sake. 4) Love of self for God’s sake.
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Heart Love Self Soul
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
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Catholic Pastor Persecution
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
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
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
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
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Forgiving Heart Taken
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Catholic Desire Wish
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.
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Angel Faithful Father Powerful
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
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
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding

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