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Bernard of Clairvaux

Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.
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Benefit Pride Receiving Recieve
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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Christian Honored More Mother Son
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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Giving Grace Order
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
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Humble Humility Lows
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Humility Important Three
And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
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Anything Concentrate Man Surprising
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
The 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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Looking Praying Thinking
I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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Comprehend God Knows Own
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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Compassion Fall Fraught Gracious Jesus
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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Cease Except Feed Fire Hate Self
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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Arm Delight Knowledge Soul Two Understanding
There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.
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Coming Men Saint Three
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Firsts Learning Love
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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Enjoyment Love May Order
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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Financial Mazes Stewardship

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