He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXDo what Jesus says… what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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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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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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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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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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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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The measure of love is love without measure.
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To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.
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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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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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Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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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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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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