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 CLAIRVAUXJesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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What we love we shall grow to resemble.
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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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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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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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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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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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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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Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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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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God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.
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