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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it’s own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it’s own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.
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Emotion Love May Recompose Sake Sufficient
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
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
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son.
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Christian Honored More Mother Son
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
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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Financial Mazes Stewardship
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
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
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
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
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
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
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Firsts Learning Love

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