black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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
Many 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 CLAIRVAUX

Humble Lasts Next
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.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Life Nature Religion
Who loves me will love my dog also.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Animal Creature Dog
Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Damage Inspirational Myself
And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Anything Concentrate Man Surprising
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Creative Grows Love
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Believe Book Nature Satisfaction Tree
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].
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Church Command Jesus Leader Minister
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Christian Heart Prayer
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Eye Mean Returning Salutary
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
I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Comprehend God Knows Own
What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Fields Scripture Woods
The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

God Love Loving Religious
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 CLAIRVAUX

Heart Love Self Soul
The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole?
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Faith Heart Inspiration
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
The measure of love is love without measure.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Inspirational Love Measure
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Past Regret Resolving Saint
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Forgiving Heart Taken
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Beautiful Modesty Virtue
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
Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Christian Honored More Mother Son
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Catholic Pastor Persecution
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX

Heart Jesus Song
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

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes