Saint Bernard
Saint Bernard
learn stones teach trees woods
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
accepting adequately assuming death gauge human lord majesty nature punishment revealed shame
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
embraced extent however lord love merciful privileged sit wretched
I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.