The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXJesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.
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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
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The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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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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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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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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All things are possible to one who believes.
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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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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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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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Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself… Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.
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Love me, love my dog.
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