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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Life Nature Religion
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
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
All things are possible to one who believes.
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All Believe Possible Things
Ingratitude is the soul’s enemy… Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
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Grace Soul Wind
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
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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Forgiving Heart Taken
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;”Be thou whole,” say openly:”I forgive thee all.
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Agony Beloved Cross Forgive
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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Emotion Love May Recompose Sake Sufficient
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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Humble Humility Lows
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
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
Love me, love my dog.
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Dog Love Wisdom
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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Fields Scripture Woods

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