Quotes by St. Bernard

"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven.

— St. Bernard

Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.

— St. Bernard

Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and in the persons who listen to it.

— St. Bernard

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

— St. Bernard