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When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.
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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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All things are possible to one who believes.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Who loves me will love my dog also.
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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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With her for guide, you shall never go astray while invoking her, you shall never lose heart so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception while she holds your hand, you cannot fall under her protection you have nothing to fear if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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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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If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified and that is prudence.
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What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist's hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross
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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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