black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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

Charity Poison Slander
Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Invisible Knowledge Thing Understanding
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Arms Joyful Names
There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Coming Men Saint Three
Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Giving Grace Order
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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Blessed Evoke Heart Name
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Loss Water Wise
Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Humble Lasts Next
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Beeches Masters Oaks
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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Jesus Kings Said Something
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Christian Heart Prayer
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Humility Important Three
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Faults Humility Wish
Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Children Mother Religious
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Heart Men River
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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Emotion Love May Recompose Sake Sufficient

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes