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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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.
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Children Mother Religious
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
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
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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Arm Delight Knowledge Soul Two Understanding
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
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Able Answers Righteousness Sin
Love me, love my dog.
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Dog Love Wisdom
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
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
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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Loss Water Wise
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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Damage Inspirational Myself
I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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Comprehend God Knows Own
All things are possible to one who believes.
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All Believe Possible Things
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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Break Friendship Lacking
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
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine

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