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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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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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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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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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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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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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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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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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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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Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
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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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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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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
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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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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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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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