It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXPrayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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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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My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.
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The measure of love is love without measure.
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