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God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.
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Benefit Pride Receiving Recieve
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.
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Grace Soul Wind
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
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
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him.
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Heart Prayer Regard Thinking
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
Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.
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Dreadful Offensiveness Presence
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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Confession Saint Sin
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
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Looking Praying Thinking
The measure of love is love without measure.
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Inspirational Love Measure
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Animal Creature Dog
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
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Able Answers Righteousness Sin
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

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God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

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