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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.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine
If she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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Before Goal Grow Shall Shows
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
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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Appearance Body Flesh Soul
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Arms Joyful Names
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
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
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
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
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
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
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Life Nature Religion
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue
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
Death is the gate of life.
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Death Dying Gates

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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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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