144 Quotes by Bernard of Clairvaux

Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!

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.

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.

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

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.

I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart,