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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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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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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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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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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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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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