Bernard of Clairvaux

"What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity"

"Look at those detractors. Look at those dogs. They ridicule us for baptizing infants, praying for the dead, and asking the prayers of the saints. They lose no time in cutting Christ off from all kinds…"

"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in t…"

"The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure."

"Seeing that the Scripture saith, God has made all for His own glory , surely His creatures ought to conform themselves, as much as they can, to His will. In Him should all our affections center, so th…"

"It’s not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice – with this one …"

"Our King is accused of treachery; it is said of him that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not."

"Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who…"