black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

Bernard of Clairvaux

O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Blessed Evoke Heart Name
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Charity Poison Slander
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Engagement Love Relationship
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Confession Saint Sin
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Inspirational Life Vanity
The measure of love is love without measure.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Inspirational Love Measure
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
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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Christ Cry Heart Love Mystery Nail Sacred
Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Grace Humility Know
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Faith Giving Inspiration
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
For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Facts Found Grace High Holy
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Arms Joyful Names
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
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Angel Benefit Hands led Motivated Self
Love 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 CLAIRVAUX

Enjoyment Love May Order
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Hoe Lesson Needs

My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes