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
good-life action good-work
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
demand rewards doe
True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.
anger adversity flames
Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.
song jesus heart
Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart,
taken heart forgiving
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
soul body flesh
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
christian art prayer
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.
names arms joyful
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
faith inspiration giving
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
dog i-love-my-dog love-my-dog
Who loves me will love my dog also.
regret past penance
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.
dying gates
Death is the gate of life.
blow roots flying
The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.
catholic wish desire
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.