Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXAnd 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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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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What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
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Death is the gate of life.
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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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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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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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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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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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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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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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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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