Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXLearn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.
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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
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A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.
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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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And thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.
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Love me, love my dog.
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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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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Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself… Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.
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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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