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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.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Life Nature Religion
O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.
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Blessed Evoke Heart Name
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Catholic Pastor Persecution
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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Prayer Temptation Virtue
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
All things are possible to one who believes.
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All Believe Possible Things
Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor’s glory.
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Benefactor Benefits Pride Use
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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Engagement Love Relationship
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
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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Cease Except Feed Fire Hate Self
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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Loss Water Wise
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
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
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
Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Animal Creature Dog
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

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