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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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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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The measure of love is love without measure.
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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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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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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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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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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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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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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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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
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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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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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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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