Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Love, Father, Believe

• Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Understanding, Invisible, Invisible Things

  Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Aeterna Press (1908). “On Consideration”, p.102, Aeterna Press

• Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Two, Understanding, Soul

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