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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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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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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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