Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXWhat 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?
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
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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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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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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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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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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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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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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
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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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With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear.
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Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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