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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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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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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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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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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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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful they are prudent they are powerful Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.
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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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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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The measure of love is love without measure.
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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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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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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.
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The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.
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Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
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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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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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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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