Quotes by Saint Bernard - Page 1

Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
Saint Bernard /
Superfluous
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That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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Hardness
Shudder
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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
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Faith
Mind
Believe Mind I Believe
Faith Believe I Believe
Cannot
Comprehend
Grasp
Hold
Though
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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Impudence
Modesty
Pleasure
Sinner
Gives
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Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
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Christ
Holy
Human Race
Plans
Understood
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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Masters
Stones
Teach
Woods
Will
More
Never
Books
Will Find Never
Find
Learn
Something
Than
Trees
Which
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God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
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God
Confession
Devil
Heart
Human Heart
Humble
Loses
Sin
Sovereignty
Had
He
Human
Gained
Over
Makes
Thereby
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I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of Christ and not by Christ's 'words and example.'
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Adam
Christ
Sinner
Washed
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Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a hoe. The prophet does not rise to reign, but to root out the weeds.
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Prophet
Reign
Rise
Does
Learn
Lesson
Root
Weeds
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A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.
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Disgrace
Superiority
Apparent
Whereby
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Humility
Lacking
Nevertheless
Pride
Clad
Surely
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There is a daily discussion with our servants about the price of food and the number of loaves: a conference with our presbyters to consider the sins of our people is a very rare occurrence.
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Discussion
Rare
Conference
Occurrence
Our People
Servants
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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Burden
Delightful
Easy
Joy
Light
Love Is
Pleasant
Sorrowful
Weak
Weary
Yoke
Rest
Fact
In Fact
Supplying
Truly
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The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.
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Animal
Destined
Fulfilled
Time Nature Man
Alleviating
Nature Time Man
Temporal
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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?
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Assuming
Gentleness
Greatness
Humility
Lord
Majesty
Punishment
Adequately
Cross
Gauge
Revealed
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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Active
Anticipation
Arranging
Consideration
Influential
Rehearsing
Beforehand
Divisions
Manner
Respects
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Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.
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Wise
Bounds
Exile
Moderation
Virtue
Wise Man Wise Man
Abide
Wise Wise Man Man
Mid
Safe Way
Wise Man
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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Exile
Judgment
Benefit
God Time Man
Conferred
Gifts
Otherwise
Praised
Punished
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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.
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Lord
Merciful
Privileged
Wretched
Love Myself Heart
All My Heart
Embraced
Extent
Lord Jesus
Occasionally
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Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.
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Despair
Endless
Glad
Heart
Preoccupation
Remembrance
Sadness
Sin
Sorrow
God Heart Will
God Will Sin
Also
Deeply
Lead
Harden
Indeed
Necessary
Otherwise
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Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.
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Wisdom
Wise
Christ
Foolishness
Lord
Ought
Passion
Strong
Weary
Away
Learn
Lest
Tender
To Love
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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Bitterness
Sweetness
Turns
Upside Down
Yield
Custom
Dreaded
Unfortunately
Hardening
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The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.
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Desires
Frame
Inclined
Reflect
Sphere
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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Edifice
Gates
Grows
Holy
Humility
Lord
Possessed
Pride
Spiritual
Tyranny
Whole
Demons
Enemies
Estate
Mighty
Virtues
Subdue
Temple
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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
Saint Bernard /
Compassionate
Direct
Indulgence
Pure
Scrutiny
Severe
Belongs
Essential
Seek
Neighbours
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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Surely
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Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.
Saint Bernard /
Abundance
Charity
Reserves
Security
Share
Abound
Herself
Lacks
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