black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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 CLAIRVAUX

Loss Water Wise
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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Agony Beloved Cross Forgive
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Faith Giving Inspiration
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Eye Mean Returning Salutary
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Able Answers Righteousness Sin
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Demand Reward Rewards
Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Arm Delight Knowledge Soul Two Understanding
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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Benefit Pride Receiving Recieve
Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Children Mother Religious
Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Compassion Fall Fraught Gracious Jesus
There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Coming Men Saint Three
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Break Friendship Lacking
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Jesus Made Sacrament
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Christian Heart Prayer
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Looking Praying Thinking
Ingratitude 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 CLAIRVAUX

Grace Soul Wind

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes