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What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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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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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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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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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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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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