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“The measure of love is love without measure.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Love #Inspirational #Love Is
“The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Religious #Religious Love #Loving God
“We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Relationship
“We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#God Love #Reason #Catholicism
“Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Prayer #Blessing #Our Prayers
“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.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Life #Vanity #Order
“What we love we shall grow to resemble.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Creative #Grows
“Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Mazes #Stewardship #Financial
“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
“Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Jesus #Made
“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
“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

#Nature #Fields #Scripture
“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.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Humble #Lasts #Next
“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.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Pride #Receiving #Benefits
“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

#Selfish #Men #Greed
“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.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Christian #Art #Prayer
“Hell is full of good wishes or desires.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Catholic #Wish #Desire
“If you concentrate hard on the state you are in, it would be suprising if you have time for anything else.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Would Be #States
“There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified; and that is prudence.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Vanity #Wish #Desire
“You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Vision #Wish #Hearing
“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.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Powerful #Father #Angel
“Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Hoe #Needs #Lessons
“How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Beautiful #Modesty #Virtue
“There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Men #Saint #Three
“As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Humility #Path #Study
“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
“My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.The wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Blessed #Light #Wings
“Who loves me will love my dog also.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Dog #Love My Dog #My Dog
“True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Regret #Past #Saint
“Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.”
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Mother #Religious #Children

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