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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Hypocrisy, Deeds, Scripture

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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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Good Life, Action, Good Work

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Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

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Order, Giving, Grace

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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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Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

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Pride, Use, Benefits

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

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Humility, Path, Study

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Life, Jesus, Heart

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

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Doe, Demand, Rewards

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

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Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

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Prayer, Temptation, Virtue

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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.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Love, Order, May

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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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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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If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

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Saint, Sin, Confession

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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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Death is the gate of life.

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Death, Dying, Gates

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Born: 1090
Died: August 20, 1153
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