For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.


Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum (ed. 1952)


For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before ...

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before ...

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before ...

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before ...