Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
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Death is the gate of life.
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What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
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Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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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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Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
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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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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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When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
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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.
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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son.
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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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