Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cistwas a French abbot and the primary reformer for the Cistercian order...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionClergyman
CountryFrance
saint sin confession
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.
joy misery greater
There is no greater misery than false joys.
children father son
The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
giving gods-will asks
God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
heaven earth eucharist
The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth
thinking looks praying
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
god seeing my-own
I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
prayer blessing our-prayers
Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.
nature woods fields
What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
hypocrisy scripture deeds
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
spiritual fool masters
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
love father believe
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.
order giving grace
Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
angel self hands
It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist's hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross