Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor’s glory.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXGod will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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If she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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All things are possible to one who believes.
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God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.
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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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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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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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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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God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.
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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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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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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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Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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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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