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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXWe find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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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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Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
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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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Love me, love my dog.
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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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The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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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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Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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All things are possible to one who believes.
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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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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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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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