Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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• We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

  

  Saint Stephen
  • Financial
  • Matters
  • Finance

• We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Instruction
  • Consolation
  • Correction

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Character
  • Society
  • Religion

• Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Find
  • Really
  • Sublime

• 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.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Enemy
  • Trouble
  • Emotion

• The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Heart
  • Opportunity
  • First Thing

• 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.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Travel
  • Ball
  • Regularity

• A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Man
  • Circumstances
  • Little

• 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.

  

  William Booth
  • Men
  • Walking
  • Firsts

• Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Speak
  • Simplicity

• The superior man is not seeking fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and to be vanished in the bliss of giving.

  

  David Deida
  • Work
  • Men
  • Giving

• From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Bliss
  • Thee
  • Imparts