Love me, love my dog.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXIt 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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Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught.
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Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
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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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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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Death is the gate of life.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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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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I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him.
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The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole?
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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it’s own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it’s own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.
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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self’s sake. 2) Love of God for self’s sake. 3) Love of God for God’s own sake. 4) Love of self for God’s sake.
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