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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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Bernard of Clairvaux
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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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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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When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
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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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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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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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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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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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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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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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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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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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God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
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Among us on the earth there is His memory but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.
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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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