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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.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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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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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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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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Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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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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God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
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And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
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The measure of love is love without measure.
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Who loves me will love my dog also.
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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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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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Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there thy temple is there.
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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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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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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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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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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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Death is the gate of life.
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