black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Grace Humility Know
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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Benefit Pride Receiving Recieve
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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Anything Concentrate Man Surprising
Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;”Be thou whole,” say openly:”I forgive thee all.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Agony Beloved Cross Forgive
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 CLAIRVAUX

Hoe Lesson Needs
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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Believe Book Nature Satisfaction Tree
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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Inspirational Life Vanity
All things are possible to one who believes.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

All Believe Possible Things
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Heart Men River
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Earth Eucharist Heaven
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
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Angel Benefit Hands led Motivated Self
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Christian Heart Prayer
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Fool Masters Spiritual
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Faith Giving Inspiration
From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Bliss Earth Thee
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Humble Humility Lows

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes