Love me, love my dog.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXHe rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.
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There is no greater misery than false joys.
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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
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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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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.
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Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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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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What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
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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 tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
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Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.
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