Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXIf 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.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.
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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
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Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.
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There is no greater misery than false joys.
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It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
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Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;”Be thou whole,” say openly:”I forgive thee all.
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True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
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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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Love me, love my dog.
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The measure of love is love without measure.
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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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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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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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