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

Bernard of Clairvaux

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Bernard of Clairvaux
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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 us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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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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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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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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Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there thy temple is there.
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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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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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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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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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Love me, love my dog.
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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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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.
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If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.
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Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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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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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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