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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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What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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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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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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Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
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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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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.
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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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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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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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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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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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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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You wish to see listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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