Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXThe tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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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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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.
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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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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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Love me, love my dog.
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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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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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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.
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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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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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If she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.
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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
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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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