If I owe all for having been created, what can I add for being remade, and being remade in this way? It was less easy to remake me then to make me. ... In his first work he gave me myself; in his second to work he gave me himself; when he gave me himself, he gave me back myself. Given, and regiven, I owe myself twice over. What can I give God in return for himself? Even if I could give him myself a thousand times, what am I to God?
On Loving God. Bernard of Clairvaux. V:15
On Loving God. Bernard of Clairvaux. V:15
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