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BEAUTIFUL flower  is  humility;  beautiful  is  patience, obedience,  meekness,  modesty,  and every other  virtue;  but  the  most  beautiful  is  charity. — Blessed  Jourdain  de  Saxe:  Letter  XXXIII.

E is  most  powerful  who    loves    most. — St. Gregory  the  Great:  "Life  of  St.  Benedict,"  Ch. XXXIIL

The best  of  all  prayers  is  that  in  which  we  ask that God's  holy  will  may  be  accomplished,  both  in ourselves  and  in  others. — Venerable  Louis  de  BloiSy O.S.B,

OD regards  the  motive  and  not  the  action. It is not  the  importance  of  the  action  that  He  considers, but  the  excellence  of  the  intention,  the  love which prompted  it. — St. Gregory the  Great,  O.S.B.

o great  is  the  goodness  of  God  in  your  regard, that, when  you  ask  through  ignorance  for  that which is  not  beneficial,  He  does  not  grant  your prayer in  this  matter,  but  gives  you  something  better instead. — St,  Bernard,  O.  Cist.

o love God  truly  one  must  have  three  hearts  in one:  a  heart  all  on  fire  for  God;  a  heart  full  of charity  for  his  neighbor;  and  a  heart  of  flint  for  himself. — Bl. Benedict Joseph  Lahre.