Author: Saint Bernard

Quotes

Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.

Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.

- Saint Bernard

That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.

That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.

- Saint Bernard

You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.

- Saint Bernard

Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

- Saint Bernard

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.

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.

- Saint Bernard

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

- Saint Bernard

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