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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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Engagement Love Relationship
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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Catholic House Together
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
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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Benefit Pride Receiving Recieve
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
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
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
Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.
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Fatherland Heaven Joy Memories Presence
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
And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
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Anything Concentrate Man Surprising
All things are possible to one who believes.
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All Believe Possible Things
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
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Humble Humility Lows
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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Church Loss Present Reservoir Superbundant
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards

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