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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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Bernard of Clairvaux
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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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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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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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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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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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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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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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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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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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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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Love me, love my dog.
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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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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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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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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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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