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Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
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Arm Delight Knowledge Soul Two Understanding
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Better Fur Humility Pride
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught.
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Compassion Fall Fraught Gracious Jesus
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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Heart Jesus Song
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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Financial Mazes Stewardship
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
Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself… Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.
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Christ Cry Heart Love Mystery Nail Sacred
Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
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Giving Grace Order
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
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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Action Good Life Work
God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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Giving Gods Will Knows
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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Church Command Jesus Leader Minister
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation

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