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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXThere is no greater misery than false joys.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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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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Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
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Both the nail and the wound cry out that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself… Through these sacred wounds we can see the secret of his heart, the great mystery of love.
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Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
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Do 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].
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Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it’s own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it’s own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.
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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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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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