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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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To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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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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What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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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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Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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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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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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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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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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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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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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The measure of love is love without measure.
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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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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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Death is the gate of life.
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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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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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