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Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Anger, Adversity, Flames

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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Mazes, Stewardship, Financial

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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

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Hoe, Needs, Lessons

Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1908). “Saint Bernard On Consideration”

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If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

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Spiritual, Fool, Masters

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Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts, Thou fount of life, thou Light of men, From the best bliss that earth imparts We turn unfilled to Thee again. We taste Thee, O Thou living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead, And thirst our souls from Thee to fill. O Jesus, ever with us stay, Make all our moments calm and bright; Chase the dark night of sin away, Shed o'er the world Thy holy light.

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Life, Jesus, Heart

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When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

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Taken, Heart, Forgiving

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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.

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Christian, Mother, Son

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The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

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Thinking, Looks, Praying

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The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth

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Heaven, Earth, Eucharist

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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

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Love, God, Faith

Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (2007). “Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux”, Vintage

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It 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.

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Humble, Humility, Lows

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Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Fear, Selfish, Men

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He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Faith, Inspiration, Giving

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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Humility, Path, Study

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All things are possible to one who believes.

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Believe, All Things

Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (2007). “Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux”, Vintage

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Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation.

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Devotion, Salvation, Mary

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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

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Prayer, Temptation, Virtue

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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.

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Humble, Lasts, Next

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Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Good Life, Action, Good Work

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Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Love, Learning, Firsts

"St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Seen Through His Selected Letters".

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Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.

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Love, May, Sake

Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1895). “Cantica Canticorum: Eighty-six Sermons on the Song of Solomon”

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To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come.

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Salvation, Mary, Mark

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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.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Life, Nature, Religion

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The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

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Wine, Angel, Tears

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True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Doe, Demand, Rewards

Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (2007). “Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux”, Vintage

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Born: 1090
Died: August 20, 1153
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