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God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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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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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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All things are possible to one who believes.
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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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The measure of love is love without measure.
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The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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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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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful they are prudent they are powerful Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.
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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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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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Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
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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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