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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.
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Angel Faithful Father Powerful
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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Humility Path Study
Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
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Children Mother Religious
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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Coming Men Saint Three
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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Believe Book Nature Satisfaction Tree
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Eye Mean Returning Salutary
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing.
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Loss Water Wise
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue
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
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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Hoe Lesson Needs
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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Financial Mazes Stewardship
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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God Love Loving Religious
Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Better Fur Humility Pride

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

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