Love me, love my dog.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXLove me, love my dog.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXAs patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXLearn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXDo 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].
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXMany of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXI 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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXIf anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXHave death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXDeath is the gate of life.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXFrom the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXJesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXLove seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXIt 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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXIngratitude is the soul’s enemy… Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXAnd thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXWhen God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
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