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