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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXHe won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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What 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?
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The measure of love is love without measure.
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Wherever…thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.
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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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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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Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.
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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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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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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 peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father’s portion?
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