The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXWith 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.
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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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
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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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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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God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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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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It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
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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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When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.
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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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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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