Birth: 1090 Death: August 20, 1153
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins..
Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace..
True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable..
Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, ro….
The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sw….
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe..
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which yo….
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man.
Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's..
Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it..
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was….
What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?.
A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend..
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters..
To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come..
Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the ….
God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you..
How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is..
There is no greater misery than false joys..
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God..
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God..