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Love me, love my dog.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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Bernard of Clairvaux
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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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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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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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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God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
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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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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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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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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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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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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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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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All things are possible to one who believes.
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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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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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With her for guide, you shall never go astray while invoking her, you shall never lose heart so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception while she holds your hand, you cannot fall under her protection you have nothing to fear if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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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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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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