I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXHe rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father’s portion?
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Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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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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For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
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When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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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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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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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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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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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
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