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
vanity wish desire
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.
names arms joyful
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
friendship break lacking
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.
would-be states hard
If you concentrate hard on the state you are in, it would be suprising if you have time for anything else.
taken heart forgiving
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
grace facts holy
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.
jesus made sacraments
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
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.
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.
beautiful modesty virtue
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
catholic wish desire
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
soul body flesh
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
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.
pride benefits receiving
Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.