How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXThe true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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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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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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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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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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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
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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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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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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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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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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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