True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXTrue love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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Love me, love my dog.
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Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
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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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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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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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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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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
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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.
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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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Do what Jesus says… what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].
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So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
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