We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXAs patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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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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I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him.
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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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Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
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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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To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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The measure of love is love without measure.
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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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There is no greater misery than false joys.
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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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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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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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The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole?
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Death is the gate of life.
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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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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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Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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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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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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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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