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To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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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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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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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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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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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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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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What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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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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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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All things are possible to one who believes.
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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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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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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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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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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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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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