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Bernard of Clairvaux on Love


The Four Degrees of Love - Bernard of Clairvaux - Renovaré

Bernard of Clairvaux offers a corrective both demanding and life-giving, inviting us to a formative progression through his “four degrees of love.”

Bernard of Clairvaux on Love | Christian History Institute

A temperate and righteous love practices self—denial in order to give one's brother what he needs. This way our selfish love grows truly social, including our ...

Four Degrees of Love (Bernard of Clairvaux) - Soul Shepherding

An Excerpt from The Love of God by Bernard of Clairvaux · The 1st Degree of Love: Loving Yourself For Your Own Sake (Selfish Love) · The 2nd Degree of Love: ...

St Bernard's Four Loves | Melbourne Catholic

In his book On the Love of God, he marks out 'four degrees of love', or four stages that make up the life of love.

A Drop of Water Poured into Wine: The Four Loves of St Bernard of ...

A Drop of Water Poured into Wine: The Four Loves of St Bernard of Clairvaux ... Love is the natural state of the universe, and love of God first ...

Work info: On Loving God - Christian Classics Ethereal Library

In his text On Loving God, St. Bernard surveys the four types of love that Christians experience as they grow in their relationship with God.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux: On Loving God

On loving God. How much God deserves love from man in recognition of His gifts, both material and spiritual: and how these gifts should be cherished without ...

Love yourself for God's sake - The Echo

In his devotion “On Loving God,” Bernard of Clairvaux writes of four “degrees” of love: (1) one loves oneself for one's own sake, ...

On Loving God - Saints' Books

To the illustrious Lord Haimeric, Cardinal. Deacon of the Roman Church, and Chancellor: Bernard, called Abbot of Clairvaux, wisheth long life in the Lord and ...

Dan Wilt | The Four Degrees Of Love (Bernard Of Clairvaux)

In this video, Dan Wilt reflects on the "four degrees of love" of Bernard of Clairvaux, and how "loving ourself for God's sake" can be a ...

Four Degrees of Love - St. Aloysius Church - Leonardtown, MD

In his book On Loving God, St. Bernard of Clairvaux explains that there are four degrees, or stages, through which we ought to progress as we ...

Bernard of Clairvaux: Theologian of Love - 1517

Bernard of Clairvaux's influence on the European church was extensive in both geographic space –– he founded upwards of 70 monastic houses ...

The Love of the Bridegroom and the Bride - St. Bernard of Clairvaux

For when God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return; the sole purpose of his love is to be loved, in the knowledge that those who love him are made ...

On Loving God by Saint BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX read by Kirsten ...

On Loving God by Saint BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX (1090 - 1153) Genre(s): Christianity - Other Read by: Kirsten Ferreri in English Chapters: ...

How to Truly Love Yourself: The Four Degrees of Love - Sharla Fritz

1. The first degree of love–love of self for self's sake. · 2. The second degree of love–love of God for self's sake. · 3. The third degree of ...

On Loving God - Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) is respected by Protestants and Roman Catholics alike. Martin. Luther considered Bernard “the greatest of all the fathers of ...

Bernard of Clairvaux: Why Should We Love God?

You want me to tell you why and how God is to be loved?I answer that the reason for loving God is God Himself. As to how He is to be loved, ...

Love of Bridegroom & Bride - Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard here treats of one of his favorite themes, the love relationship between God as bridegroom and the individual soul as bride.

On Loving God | Bernard of Clairvaux - G3 Ministries

In his text On Loving God, Bernard surveys the four types of love that Christians experience as they grow in their relationship with God.

Summary of On Loving God by St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Summary of On Loving God by St. Bernard of Clairvaux · 1. The First Degree of Love: Man Loves God for Self's Sake · 2. The Second Degree of Love ...