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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.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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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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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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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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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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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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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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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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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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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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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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