The grace of contemplation…
The grace of contemplation is granted only in response to a longing insistent desire.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
By ineffable sweetness…
The mind stolen from itself by the ineffable sweetness of the Word
–Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
The Lord is with us…
The fire rages, but the Lord is with us in tribulation. If God is with us, who can be against us? Furthermore, if he rescues us, who can snatch us out of his hand? Who can take us from his grasp? Finally, if he glorifies us, who can make us inglorious? If he glorifies us, who can humiliate us?
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
He was present…
You ask then how I knew He was present, when His ways can in no way be traced? He is life and power, and as soon as He enters in, He awakens my slumbering soul; He stirs and soothes and pierces my heart, for before it was hard as stone, and diseased.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
The trees will teach…
The trees and stones will teach you what you never learn from the masters.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Love is sufficient…
Love is sufficient of itself; it gives pleasure by itself and because of itself. It is its own merit, its own reward. Love looks for no cause outside itself, no effect beyond itself. Its profit lies in the practice.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
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