Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.
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I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.
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Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.
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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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What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
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I was lucky enough to be down at the studio the day John Paul Jones came down.
