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
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
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.
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.
faith inspiration giving
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
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.