Love me, love my dog.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXTo serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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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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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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Death is the gate of life.
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Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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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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And thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.
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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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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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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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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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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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