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What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Better Fur Humility Pride
Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
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Humble Lasts Next
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
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
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander
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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Believe Book Nature Satisfaction Tree
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
Do what Jesus says… what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].
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Church Command Jesus Leader Minister
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
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear.
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Christian Fall Heart
The measure of love is love without measure.
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Inspirational Love Measure
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Catholic Desire Wish
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Fool Masters Spiritual
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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