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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Anything Concentrate Man Surprising
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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Hoe Lesson Needs
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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Benefit Pride Receiving Recieve
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Creative Grows Love
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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Appearance Body Flesh Soul
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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Faith God Love Profitable
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
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
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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Engagement Love Relationship
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
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
Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Better Fur Humility Pride
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
If she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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Before Goal Grow Shall Shows
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander

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