Bernard of Clairvaux, the Times, the Man, and His Work: An Historical Study in Eight LecturesC. Scribner's sons, 1901 - 598 pages |
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Page 382 - He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good : and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he. 21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent : and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
Page 583 - But He whom now we trust in Shall then be seen and known ; And they that know and see Him Shall have Him for their own.
Page 168 - Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name ; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Page 421 - O Hope of every contrite heart! O Joy of all the meek! To those who fall, how kind thou art! How good to those who seek!
Page 561 - For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion: In the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me upon a rock.
Page 509 - At Landen two poor sickly beings, who, in a rude state of society, would have been regarded as too puny to bear any part in combats, were the souls of two great armies.
Page 20 - The second set of invasions occurred at the end of the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh century.
Page 273 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 491 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Page 21 - A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the rock of Gibraltar to the banks of the Loire; the repetition of an equal space would have carried the Saracens to the confines of Poland and the Highlands of Scotland; the Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames.