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 CLAIRVAUXOur 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.
More Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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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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Who loves me will love my dog also.
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Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.
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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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Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.
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The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.
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We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.
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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
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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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Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
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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?
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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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God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.
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