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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXThe more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
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Wherever…thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.
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Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.
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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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Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Death is the gate of life.
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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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There is no greater misery than false joys.
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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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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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All things are possible to one who believes.
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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