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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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Christian Heart Prayer
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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Charity Poison Slander
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Deeds Hypocrisy Scripture
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
The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole?
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Faith Heart Inspiration
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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Heart Men River
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
And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
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Anything Concentrate Man Surprising
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
there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self’s sake. 2) Love of God for self’s sake. 3) Love of God for God’s own sake. 4) Love of self for God’s sake.
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Heart Love Self Soul
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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Appearance Body Flesh Soul
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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Financial Mazes Stewardship
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Beautiful Modesty Virtue
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
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
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

From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.

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