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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

Bernard of Clairvaux

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
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Facts Found Grace High Holy
Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;”Be thou whole,” say openly:”I forgive thee all.
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Agony Beloved Cross Forgive
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
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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Hoe Lesson Needs
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
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 more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
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Looking Praying Thinking
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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Jesus Kings Said Something
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Catholic Pastor Persecution
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
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
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
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking

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