Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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• Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Great
  • Love

• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Change
  • Survival
  • Necessary

• I have no doubt concerning that Supreme Goodness, who is so eager to share His blessings, or of that everlasting love which makes Him more eager to bestow perfection on us than we are to receive it.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Perfection
  • Goodness
  • Blessings

• Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Man
  • Prayer
  • Direction

• Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender who started out so young and strong only to surrender

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Strong
  • Prayer

• What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Help
  • Death
  • Prayer

• Let us pray...Oh, uh, please don't feel like you can't participate if you're not Christian, because this is a prayer for all faiths...

  

  Bo Burnham
  • Christian
  • Prayer

• God shapes the world by prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • World
  • God
  • Prayer

• Maybe baby I'll have you,Maybe baby you'll be true.Maybe baby I'll have you for me. (All for me)It's funny honey you don't care-a-are,You never listen to my prayer-a-yer,Maybe baby you will love me someday (someday).

  

  Buddy Holly
  • True
  • Funny
  • Prayer

• When I think about 'Since U Been Gone,' I think the first thing that comes to mind is 'Livin' On A Prayer' - they're kind of like sisters, a little bit. And 'Call Me Maybe' was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Mind
  • Prayer

• I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • Prayer

• Discipline is not consistency, and the reason why I say that is - like, for an example, making prayer five times a day, that establishes routine and consistency. That I can do. And having certain fundamental consistencies in business, can do. But time management, outside of that, that's where that's a challenge.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • Time
  • Why
  • Business

• When I was a child, we never began a meal without prayer. We thanked God for the food, for each other.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • God
  • Food
  • Prayer

• My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

  

  Anna Lee
  • Power
  • Father
  • Prayer

• I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Powerful

• I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

  

  Kiran Bedi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Prayer

• We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the first page, it said that the prayer book was in thanks to the sponsorship of this family in a temple in Kansas City. For me, it was a moment when I really kind of connected in a real serious way with my personal identity as a Jew.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Up
  • Real
  • Family

• A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Wife
  • Blessings
  • Stature

• In people's eyes I read Pages of malice and sin.

  

  Mikhail Lermontov
  • Eyes
  • Sin
  • Read

• I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Women
  • I Think

• I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Prayer
  • Blessings
  • Necessary