There is no greater misery than false joys.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXWho loves me will love my dog also.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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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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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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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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The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
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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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What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Who loves me will love my dog also.
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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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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
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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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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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there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self’s sake. 2) Love of God for self’s sake. 3) Love of God for God’s own sake. 4) Love of self for God’s sake.
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