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

Bernard of Clairvaux

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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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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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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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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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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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All things are possible to one who believes.
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Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
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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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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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Who loves me will love my dog also.
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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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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
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Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful they are prudent they are powerful Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.
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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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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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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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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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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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