00540 – Saints Don’t Need Our Honor
Bernard of Clairvaux

The saints have no need of honor from us; neither does our devotion add the slightest thing to what is theirs. Clearly, if we venerate their memory, it serves us, not them.

But I tell you, when I think of them, I feel myself inflamed by tremendous yearning.

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