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Bernard of Clairvaux

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
Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
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Children Mother Religious
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue
Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.
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Dreadful Offensiveness Presence
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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Action Good Life Work
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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Giving Grace Order
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist’s hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross
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Angel Benefit Hands led Motivated Self
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Humility Important Three
there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self’s sake. 2) Love of God for self’s sake. 3) Love of God for God’s own sake. 4) Love of self for God’s sake.
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Heart Love Self Soul
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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Heart Prayer Regard Thinking
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
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
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Inspirational Life Vanity
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
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Jesus Kings Said Something
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
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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Humility Path Study
Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son.
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Christian Honored More Mother Son
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
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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Humble Lasts Next

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