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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXHumility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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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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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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Do what Jesus says… what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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If she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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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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Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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Love me, love my dog.
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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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And thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.
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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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