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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

Bernard of Clairvaux

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
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
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue
And 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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Anything Concentrate Man Surprising
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
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor’s glory.
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Benefactor Benefits Pride Use
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
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Arm Delight Knowledge Soul Two Understanding
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Animal Creature Dog
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine
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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Cease Except Feed Fire Hate Self
A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.
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Another Faithfully Men Saint
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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Loss Water Wise
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
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Able Answers Righteousness Sin
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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Heart Jesus Song

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