An edition of The book of Saint Bernard on the love of God
(1881)
The book of Saint Bernard on the love of God
by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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1881
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C. Kegan Paul
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS.
St. Bernard on the Love of God.
I. Why we ought to love God, and how we ought to love Him 3
II. That God has a right to the love of man because of His gifts to soul and body. How these should be confessed, and not turned against Him who gave them 6
III. What motives Christians have, more than Infidels, to love God 12
IV. For whom there is comfort in the thought of God ; and who are fittest to feel love for Him 17
V. Of the obligation to love God, especially for Christians 23
VI. A summary of what has hitherto been skid 27
VII. The rewards and advantage of the love of God. The heart of man is not to be satisfied by earthly things 29
VIII. We begin by the love of self, this being for us the first degree of love 37
IX. Of the second and third degrees of love 41
X. The fourth degree of love is to love self only for God 43
XI. The saints will have perfect love only after the general resurrection 47
Fragments from a Fragment by St. Bernard 55
Three Rosaries of our Lady 157
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