Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXDeath is the gate of life.
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So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
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If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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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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Who loves me will love my dog also.
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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.
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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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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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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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