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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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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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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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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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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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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'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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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Who loves me will love my dog also.
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With her for guide, you shall never go astray while invoking her, you shall never lose heart so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception while she holds your hand, you cannot fall under her protection you have nothing to fear if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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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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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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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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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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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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Death is the gate of life.
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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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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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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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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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