Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXGod will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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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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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
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The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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And 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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With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear.
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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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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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him.
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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