Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Prayer, Blessing, Our Prayers

• Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Prayer, Temptation, Virtue

• 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

• I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him. Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Prayer, Heart, Thinking

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1910). “Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux: Selections from His Letters, Meditations, Sermons, Hymns, and Other Writings, Rendered Into English by Horatio Grimley”

• Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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