What we love we shall grow to resemble.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXAll things are possible to one who believes.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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The measure of love is love without measure.
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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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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.
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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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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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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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And thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.
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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him.
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To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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