Quotes by St. Bernard

"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.

— St. Bernard

Wisdom

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

— St. Bernard

Success

Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and in the persons who listen to it.

— St. Bernard

Wisdom

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

— St. Bernard

Wisdom

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

— St. Bernard

Love

Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp, And Thy pierced feet I clasp; Gracious Jesus, spurn me not; On me, with compassion fraught, Let Thy glances fall. From Thy cross of agony, My Beloved, look on me; Turn me wholly unto Thee; "Be thou whole," say openly: "I forgive thee all."

— St. Bernard

Wisdom