The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXThere is no greater misery than false joys.
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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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Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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The measure of love is love without measure.
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Love me, love my dog.
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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There is no greater misery than false joys.
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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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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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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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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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When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
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If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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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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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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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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Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.
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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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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son.
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Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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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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