“The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure.”

—  Bernard of Clairvaux

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 395

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French abbot, theologian 1090–1153

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