Saint Bernard Quotes

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• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It…
• We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then…
• A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do,…
• Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
• The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
• The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal…
• God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
• I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that…
• Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in…
• Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it.…
• Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not…
• You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
• I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

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