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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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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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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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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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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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Death is the gate of life. 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. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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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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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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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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Love me, love my dog.
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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.
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A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.
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Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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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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It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
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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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True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
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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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