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My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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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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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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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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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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You wish to see listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.
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There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified and that is prudence.
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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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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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What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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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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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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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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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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To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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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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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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