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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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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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Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
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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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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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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 anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there thy temple is there.
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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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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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You wish to see listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.
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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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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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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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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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