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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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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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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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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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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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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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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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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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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
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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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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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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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God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.
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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, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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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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