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What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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 first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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Firsts Learning Love
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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Emotion Love May Recompose Sake Sufficient
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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Fields Scripture Woods
God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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Gods Reborn Spirituality Will
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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Grace Soul Wind
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
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Beeches Masters Oaks
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
Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
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Enjoyment Love May Order
There is no greater misery than false joys.
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Greater Joy Misery
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Catholic Pastor Persecution
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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Forgiving Heart Taken
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
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Mark Mary Salvation
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Earth Eucharist Heaven

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