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

Bernard of Clairvaux

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Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful they are prudent they are powerful Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.
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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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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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Love me, love my dog.
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Who loves me will love my dog also.
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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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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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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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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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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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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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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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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'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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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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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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The measure of love is love without measure.
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