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O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.

Bernard of Clairvaux

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
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Inspirational Life Vanity
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
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
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
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father’s portion?
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Between Children Father God Portion Son
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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Humility Path Study
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Catholic Pastor Persecution
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
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
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Fool Masters Spiritual
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
There is no greater misery than false joys.
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Greater Joy Misery
O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.
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Blessed Evoke Heart Name
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Humility Important Three
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious

O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.

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O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.

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