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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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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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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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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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Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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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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Love me, love my dog.
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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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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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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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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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With her for guide, you shall never go astray while invoking her, you shall never lose heart so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception while she holds your hand, you cannot fall under her protection you have nothing to fear if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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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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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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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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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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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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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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Death is the gate of life.
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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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