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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
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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.
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Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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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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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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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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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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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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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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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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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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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Action and contemplation are very close companions they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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