Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXThe measure of love is love without measure.
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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
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If she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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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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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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If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.
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Love me, love my dog.
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Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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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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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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