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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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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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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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You wish to see listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.
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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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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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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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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 three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.
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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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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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Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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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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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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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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My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.
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What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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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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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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