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

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
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
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
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
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
Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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Believe Father Love
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Better Fur Humility Pride
All things are possible to one who believes.
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All Believe Possible Things
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Demand Reward Rewards
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Humility Important Three
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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Giving Grace Order
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
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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Christian Enemies Grid Kings War
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
Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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Grace Humility Know

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

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