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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
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
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
We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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Faith God Love Profitable
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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Cease Except Feed Fire Hate Self
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Humility Important Three
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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Angel Tears Wine
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
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Believe Book Nature Satisfaction Tree
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
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
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
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Jesus Kings Said Something
Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught.
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Compassion Fall Fraught Gracious Jesus
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
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 won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Faith Giving Inspiration
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

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