Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090-1153)

St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 – August 21 1153), abbot of Clairvaux, was a highly influential French churchman, theologian and mystic. He was one of the founders of the Cistercian, or Bernardine, monastic order.

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Alternative Names: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux • Saint Bernard • St. Bernard of Clairvaux • St. Bernard • Bernhard • Bernardus Claraevallensis • Bernardus Claravallensis • Bernard de Clairvaux

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I, for one, shall speak about those obstinate Greeks, who are with us and against us, united in faith and divided in peace, though in truth their faith may stray from the straight path.

Ego addo et de pertinacia Græcorum, qui nobiscum sunt, et nobiscum non sunt, juncti fide, pace divisi, quanquam et in fide ipsa claudicaverint a semitis rectis.

Who loves me, loves my dog.

Qui me amat, amat et canem meam.

Vulgo dicitur: Quod non videt oculus, cor non dolet.

He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.

Qui se sibi magistrum constituit, stulto se discipulum subdit.

One cannot now say, the priest is as the people, for the truth is that the people are not so bad as the priest.

Non est jam dicere, "Ut populus, sic sacerdos"; quia nec si populus, ut sacerdos.

Bestia illa de Apocalypsi, cui datum est os loquens blasphemias, et bellum gerere cum sanctis (Apoc. XIII, 5-7), Petri cathedram occupat, tanquam leo paratus ad praedam.

Liberavi animam meam.

Experto crede: aliquid amplius invenies in silvis, quam in libris. Ligna et lapides docebunt te, quod a magistris audire non possis.

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