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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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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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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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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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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.
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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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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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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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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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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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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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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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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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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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Love me, love my dog.
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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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