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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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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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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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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.
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God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
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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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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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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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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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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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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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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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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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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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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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Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
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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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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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