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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Beautiful, Modesty, Virtue

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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Learning, Tree, Vines

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Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Inspirational, Damage

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 213, 1895.

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Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Humility, Grace, Doe

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 329), 1895.

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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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"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Blessed, Wings, Light

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 88), 1895.

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Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!

Bernard of Clairvaux

Jesus, Made, Sacraments

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For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

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Grace, Facts, Holy

Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1952). “Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum”

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There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.

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Men, Saint, Three

Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1985). “St. Bernard's Sermons on the Nativity”

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Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Names, Arms, Joyful

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Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Humility, Pride, Fur

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A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Men, Doe, Saint

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Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Mean, Eye

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Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Powerful, Father, Angel

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Obey your bishop! "Obey those set over you [Heb 13:17]," the teachers of the Church... I remind you, my dear friends, of what I said when I was with you: do not receive any outside or unknown preacher, unless he be sent by your bishop or preaches with the permission of the pope. For "how shall they preach unless they are sent [Rom 10:15]?"

Bernard of Clairvaux

Teacher, Over You, Church

"Bernard of Clairvaux on the Life of the Mind". Book by John R. Sommerfeldt, 2004.

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A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Friendship, Break, Lacking

Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1953). “Letters”

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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man

Bernard of Clairvaux

Christian, Prayer, Heart

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Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Mother, Religious, Children

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There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified; and that is prudence.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Vanity, Wish, Desire

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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”

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It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.

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Choices, Grace, Done

"On Grace & Free Choice". Book by Bernard of Clairvaux, 1988.

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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Earth, Bliss, Thee

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I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Bernard of Clairvaux

Masters, Oaks

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What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity

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Believe, Sea, Light

Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1981). “On Loving God: Selection from Sermons”, Greenwood Press

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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

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Born: 1090
Died: August 20, 1153
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