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• It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist's hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross

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  Angel, Self, Hands

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• Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Soul, Body, Flesh

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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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  Love, May, Sake

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1895). “Cantica Canticorum: Eighty-six Sermons on the Song of Solomon”

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• The reason for our loving God is God.

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  Reason, Loving God

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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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  Sweet, Jesus, Heart

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• It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

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  Humility, Wish, Faults

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• To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.

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  Salvation, Mary, Mark

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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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  Children, Father, Son

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• True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.

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  Regret, Past, Saint

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• Death is the gate of life. 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. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

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  Book, Wind, Tree

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• Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

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  Prayer, Blessing, Our Prayers

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• Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

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  Poison, Charity, Slander

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• Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

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  Catholic, Wish, Desire

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 362-64), 1922.

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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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  Pride, Receiving, Benefits

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1981). “On Loving God: Selection from Sermons”, Greenwood Press

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• There is no greater misery than false joys.

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  Joy, Misery, Greater

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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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  Woods, Fields, Scripture

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• The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

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  Wine, Angel, Tears

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• The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.

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  Blow, Roots, Flying

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1952). “Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum”

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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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  Would Be, States, Hard

  "Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works".

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• Love me, love my dog.

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  Love, Wisdom, Dog

  Bernard of Clairvaux (2016). “Sermons for the Autumn Season: Sermons for the Autumn Season”, p.93, Liturgical Press

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• Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

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  Learning, Tree, Vines

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• Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Lord, Dies

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1977). “Treatises III.”, Burns & Oates

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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.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Inspirational, Damage

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 213, 1895.

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• My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

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  Kings, Children, Promise

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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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  God, My Own, Knows

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