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Bernard of Clairvaux

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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Catholic House Together
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
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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Engagement Love Relationship
Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.
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Fatherland Heaven Joy Memories Presence
There is no greater misery than false joys.
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Greater Joy Misery
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Jesus Made Sacrament
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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Another Faithfully Men Saint
Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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Grace Humility Know
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
O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.
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Blessed Evoke Heart Name
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Catholic Pastor Persecution
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
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Inspirational Life Vanity
Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Better Fur Humility Pride
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
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Looking Praying Thinking
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
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Facts Found Grace High Holy
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Fool Masters Spiritual
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
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Past Regret Resolving Saint
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Catholic Desire Wish
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
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
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Animal Creature Dog
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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Believe Father Love
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking

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