Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXLove is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it’s own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it’s own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.
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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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What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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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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Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
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God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.
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Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it’s own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it’s own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.
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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.
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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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