To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXTo serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXJesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXIt is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXThe peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father’s portion?
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXIf 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 CLAIRVAUXHe won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXDeath is the gate of life.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXIt is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXLove 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 CLAIRVAUXThe 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 CLAIRVAUXI have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXHow beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXHumility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXBoth 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 CLAIRVAUXHumility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUXThere 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.
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