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Bernard of Clairvaux

Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian

1090–1153

3 quotes.

One cannot now say, the priest is as the people, for the truth is that the people are not so bad as the priest.
In Conversione S. Pauli, Sermon 1, sect. 3; translation by James Spedding, in The Works of Francis Bacon (1860) vol. 12, p. 134
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- Religion
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.
Epistola CVI, sect. 2; translation from Edward Churton The Early English Church ([1840] 1841) p. 324
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- Nature
What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity.
On Loving God, Ch. 11, Paul Halsall trans.
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