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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
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

Bernard of Clairvaux
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.

Bernard of Clairvaux
If you concentrate hard on the state you are in, it would be suprising if you have time for anything else.

Bernard of Clairvaux
Obey your bishop! Obey those set over you [Heb 13:17], the teachers of the Church…. I remind you, my dear friends, of what I said when I was with you: do not receive any outside or unknown preacher, unless he be sent by your bishop or preaches with the permission of the pope. For how shall they preach unless they are sent [Rom 10:15]?

Bernard of Clairvaux
Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.

Bernard of Clairvaux