Quotes from Bernard of Clairvaux
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
The reason for our loving God is God.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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.
— Bernard of Clairvaux