Bernard of Clairvaux
French Cistercian abbot and mystic, 1090-1153
7 quotes.
Quotes by Bernard of Clairvaux
- It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
- It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
- Nothing can work me damage except myself.
- Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
- The deceitful charms of prosperity destroy more souls than all the scourges of adversity.
- The reason for loving God is God Himself; and the measure of our love for Him is to love Him without measure.
- We are not raised the first day to the summit of perfection. It is by climbing, not by flying, that we arrive there.