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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

Bernard of Clairvaux

If she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Before Goal Grow Shall Shows
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
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.
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Anything Concentrate Man Surprising
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
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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Church Loss Present Reservoir Superbundant
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
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Life Nature Religion
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
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
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
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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Catholic House Together
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
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
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine

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