On Loving God by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153)
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On Loving God is one of the best-known and most influential works of Medieval Christian mysticism. Written at the request of one of the cardinals of Rome, it describes the four “levels” of love for God, and puts Christian devotion in the context of God’s love for mankind. Summary by Kirsten Ferreri.
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30 - Why we should love God, and the measure of that love
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29 - 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 neglect of the Giver
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28 - What greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love God
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27 - Of those who find comfort in there collection of God, or are fittest for His love
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26 - Of the Christian's debt of love, how great it is
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25 - A brief summary
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24 - Of love toward God not without reward: and how the hunger of man's heart cannot be satisfied with earthly things
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23 - Of the first degree of love: wherein man loves God for self's sake
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22 - Of the second and third degrees of love
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21 - Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God's sake
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20 - Of the attainment of this perfection of love only at the resurrection
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19 - Of love: out of a letter to the Carthusians
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18 - Of the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelings
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17 - Of the law of the love of sons
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16 - Of the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly fatherland
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