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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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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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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
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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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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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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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Death is the gate of life.
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A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.
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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 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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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
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True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
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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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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist's hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross
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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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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
Bernard of Clairvaux
