Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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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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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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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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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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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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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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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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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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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Jesus, what made You so small? 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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Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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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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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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