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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The measure of love is love without measure.
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Inspirational Love Measure
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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Grace Humility Know
There is no greater misery than false joys.
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Greater Joy Misery
If she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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Before Goal Grow Shall Shows
Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Better Fur Humility Pride
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.
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Loss Water Wise
Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;”Be thou whole,” say openly:”I forgive thee all.
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Agony Beloved Cross Forgive
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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Past Regret Resolving Saint
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine
Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself… Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.
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Christ Cry Heart Love Mystery Nail Sacred
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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Church Loss Present Reservoir Superbundant
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer

I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.

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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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