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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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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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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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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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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Death is the gate of life.
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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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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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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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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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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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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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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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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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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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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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My burden is light, said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.
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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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