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there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Death is the gate of life.
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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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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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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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The measure of love is love without measure.
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The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.
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A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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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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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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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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What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity
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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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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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