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Bernard of Clairvaux

If she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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Before Goal Grow Shall Shows
The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.
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Heart Jesus Sweet Wound
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
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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Heart Jesus Song
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
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Faults Humility Wish
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Life Nature Religion
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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Fields Scripture Woods
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
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven
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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Church Loss Present Reservoir Superbundant
It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist’s hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross
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Angel Benefit Hands led Motivated Self
Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself… Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.
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Christ Cry Heart Love Mystery Nail Sacred
The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father’s portion?
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Between Children Father God Portion Son
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

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