Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes About Charity

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  • The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.

    Blow   Roots   Flying  
    Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1952). “Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum”
  • Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.

    Fear   Selfish   Men  
  • Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

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