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

Bernard of Clairvaux
Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.

Bernard of Clairvaux
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 of people to both sexes, young and old, living and dead. They put infants outside the sphere of grace because they are too young to receive it, and those who are full grown because they find difficulty in preserving chastity. They deprive the dead of the help of the living, and rob the living of the prayers of the saints because they have died. God forbid! The Lord will not forsake his people who are as the sands of the sea, nor will he who redeemed all be content with a few, and those heretics....

Bernard of Clairvaux
"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 the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.

Bernard of Clairvaux
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

Bernard of Clairvaux
Believe me who have tried. Thou wilt find something more in woods than in books. Trees and rocks will teach what thou canst not hear from a master.

Bernard of Clairvaux