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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.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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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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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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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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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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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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All things are possible to one who believes.
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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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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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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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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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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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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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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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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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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Action and contemplation are very close companions they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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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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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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For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
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