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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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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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Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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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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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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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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God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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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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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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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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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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Death is the gate of life.
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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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