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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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Love me, love my dog.
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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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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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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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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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What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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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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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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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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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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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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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Death is the gate of life.
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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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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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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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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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