All Quotes by Saint Bernard
“I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.”
“Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.”
“In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.”
“God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.”
“That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.”
“Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?”