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On Loving God

St Bernard of Clairvaux · 18 chapters · Spiritual Theology

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Contents

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Ch 1. Why we should love God and the measure of that love.
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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.
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Ch 3. What greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love God.
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Ch 4. Of those who find comfort in their collection of God, or are fittest for His love.
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Ch 5. Of the Christian's debt of love, how great it is.
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Ch 6. A brief summary.
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Ch 7. 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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Ch 8. Of the first degree of love: wherein man loves God for self's sake.
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Ch 9. Of the second and third degrees of love.
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Ch 10. Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God's sake.
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Ch 11. Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God's sake.
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Ch 12. Of love: out of a letter to the Carthusians.
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Ch 13. Of the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelings.
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Ch 14. Of the law of the love of sons.
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Ch 15. Of the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly fatherland.
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Ch 16. Index of Scripture References.
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Dedication
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On Loving God - Index
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