As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXIf 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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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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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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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Death is the gate of life.
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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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It 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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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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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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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Love me, love my dog.
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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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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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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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What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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