Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
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We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
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No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.
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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
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I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.
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A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.
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Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.
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Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then faith again, and then works again--until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.
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For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
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When you realize yourself as completely empty and devoid of all form... this is wisdom, When you realize yourself as the fullness of love overflowing itself without object... this is bliss, And when you are aware of yourself incarnate in the appearance of form... this is leela.
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From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
