"The impudence of the sinner displeases God as……" — Saint Bernard
"The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure."
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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 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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Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have…
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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 Displeases Quotes
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one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
— Pierre Corneille
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He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from…
— Mark Twain
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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
— Mark Twain
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Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases,…
— David Hume
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In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
— Brigitte Bardot
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We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people,…
— Joko Beck
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We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected…
— Thomas a Kempis
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I don’t need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin,…
— Michael Specter
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Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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