He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.

Saint Bernard
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  1. He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.

  2. Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.

  3. Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  4. Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

  5. God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.

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