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On Loving God
St Bernard of Clairvaux · d. 1153
- 1 Ch 1. Why we should love God and the measure of that love.
- 2 Ch 2. 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.
- 3 Ch 3. What greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love God.
- 4 Ch 4. Of those who find comfort in their collection of God, or are fittest for His love.
- 5 Ch 5. Of the Christian's debt of love, how great it is.
- 6 Ch 6. A brief summary.
- 7 Ch 7. Of love toward God not without reward: and how the hunger of man's heart cannot be satisfied with earthly things.
- 8 Ch 8. Of the first degree of love: wherein man loves God for self's sake.
- 9 Ch 9. Of the second and third degrees of love.
- 10 Ch 10. Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God's sake.
- 11 Ch 11. Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God's sake.
- 12 Ch 12. Of love: out of a letter to the Carthusians.
- 13 Ch 13. Of the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelings.
- 14 Ch 14. Of the law of the love of sons.
- 15 Ch 15. Of the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly fatherland.
- 16 Ch 16. Index of Scripture References.
- 17 Dedication
- 18 On Loving God - Index