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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!

Bernard of Clairvaux

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Bernard of Clairvaux
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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Action and contemplation are very close companions they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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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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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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Death is the gate of life.
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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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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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The measure of love is love without measure.
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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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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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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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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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My burden is light, said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
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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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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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