There is no greater misery than false joys.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXTherefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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Love me, love my dog.
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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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What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
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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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Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
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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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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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The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole?
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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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It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist’s hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross
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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 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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