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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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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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