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Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
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
Love me, love my dog.
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Dog Love Wisdom
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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Heart Jesus Song
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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Faith God Love Profitable
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
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
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
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
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
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Humble Lasts Next
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
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Firsts Learning Love
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

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

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