Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXIt was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist’s hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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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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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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All things are possible to one who believes.
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To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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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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The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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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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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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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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Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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