From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXAnd thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.
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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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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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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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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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For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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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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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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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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Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.
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