I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXI have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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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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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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The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
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Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
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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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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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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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Death is the gate of life.
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Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor’s glory.
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If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
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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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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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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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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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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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