Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXMany 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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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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Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
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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.
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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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The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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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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Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself… Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.
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So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
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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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What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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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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What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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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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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Ingratitude is the soul’s enemy… Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
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Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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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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It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
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Do what Jesus says… what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].
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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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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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