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Bernard of Clairvaux

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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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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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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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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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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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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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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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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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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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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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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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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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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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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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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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The measure of love is love without measure.
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