Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXYour actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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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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Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
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Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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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.
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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
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What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
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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.
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Death is the gate of life.
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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
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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.
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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.
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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
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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.
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