You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

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• Saint Bernard:

  You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reaso

• Saint Bernard:

  There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacki

• Saint Bernard:

  I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of

• Saint Bernard:

  Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to

• Saint Bernard:

  We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in

• Saint Bernard:

  A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do

• Saint Bernard:

  For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment

• Saint Bernard:

  Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of pe

• Saint Bernard:

  The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasur

• Saint Bernard:

  The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the