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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Arms Joyful Names
The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father’s portion?
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Between Children Father God Portion Son
Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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Grace Humility Know
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Learning Tree Vines
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it’s own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it’s own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.
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Emotion Love May Recompose Sake Sufficient
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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Facts Found Grace High Holy
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
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
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
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
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Humble Humility Lows
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
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
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue

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