"Charity never lacks what is her own, all……" — Saint Bernard
"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. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full."
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Saint Bernard
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13 Quotes by Saint Bernard
Saint Bernard has 13 quotes on this site.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and…
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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves…
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A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do…
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Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace…
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical…
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God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had…
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I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus,…
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty…
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Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with…
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can…
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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
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More Abound Quotes
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most…
— Teresa of Avila
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
— Samuel Butler
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No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness…
— Archibald Alexander
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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
— W. S. Gilbert
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Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
— Ben Jonson
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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known…
— Algernon Sidney
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many…
— Charles Lyell
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
— Bell Hooks
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The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
— Alain de Botton
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