Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

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• There 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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  Inspirational, Life, Vanity

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• God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.

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  Giving, Gods Will, Knows

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• The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

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  Humility, Important, Three

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• The measure of love is love without measure.

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  Love, Inspirational, Love Is

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux), William (of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry), Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) (1983). “The love of God, and spiritual friendship”, Multnomah Pub

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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, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.

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  Wise, Loss, Water

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• What we love we shall grow to resemble.

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  Love, Creative, Grows

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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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  Love, Relationship, Engagement

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1953). “St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Seen Through His Selected Letters”

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• Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.

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  Wind, Grace, Soul

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• With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal.

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  Christian, Fall, Heart

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• Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

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  Song, Jesus, Heart

  Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (2012). “Commentary on the Song of Songs”, p.100, Jazzybee Verlag

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• O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition.

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  Blessed, Love You, Heart

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• 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.

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  Heart, Self, Soul

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• Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

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  House, Catholic, Together

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1952). “Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum”

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• Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.

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  Christian, Art, Prayer

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• God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.

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  Spirituality, Reborn, Gods Will

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• Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

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  Spiritual, Spring, Water

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• You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

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  Listening, Vision, Wish

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• Expect much of God, and he will do much for you.

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• He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

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  Hypocrisy, Deeds, Scripture

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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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  Soul, Body, Flesh

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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? Both 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.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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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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  Heart, Men, Rivers

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• The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

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  Religious, Religious Love, Loving God

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 395), 1895.

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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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  Love, Order, May

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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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  Mazes, Stewardship, Financial

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