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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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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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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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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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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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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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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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You wish to see listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.
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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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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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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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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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The measure of love is love without measure.
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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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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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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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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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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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