Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writ...
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Source: Various Sermons
“The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth”
“Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.”
“Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.”
“The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.”
Source: Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Source: On Loving God: Selection from Sermons
Source: Cantica Canticorum: Eighty-six Sermons on the Song of Solomon
“God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.”
Source: Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum
“Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.”
“A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.”
Source: Letters
“The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.”
“All things are possible to one who believes.”
Source: Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
“So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!”
“Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.”
“Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation.”
“True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.”
Source: Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
“If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.”
“Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.”
“It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.”