How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXWho loves me will love my dog also.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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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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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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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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All things are possible to one who believes.
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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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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
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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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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
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Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
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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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Do 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].
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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