02.00. Inspiration on loving God

Inspiration on loving God
by Bernard of Clairvaux Contents of Inspiration on loving God

Dedication

1. Why we should love God and the measure of that love
2. On loving god how much God deserves love from man
3. What greater incentives Christians have to love God
4. Of those who find comfort in the recollection of God
5. Of the Christians debt of love
6. A brief summary
7. Of love toward God not without reward
8. Of the first degree of love
9. Of the second and third degrees of love
10. Of the fourth degree of love
11. Attainment of this perfection of love only at resurrection
12. Of love: out of a letter to the carthusians
13. Of the law of self-will & desire, of slaves & hirelings
14. Of the law of the love of sons
15. Of the four degrees of love

Dedication

1 . Why we should love God, and the measure of that love 2 . 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 . What greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love God 4 . Of those who find comfort in the recollection of God, or are fittest for His love 5 . Of the Christian’s debt of love, how great it is 6 . A brief summary 7 . Of love toward God not without reward; and how the hunger of man’s heart cannot be satisfied with earthly things 8 . Of the first degree of love, wherein man loves God for self’s sake 9 . Of the second and third degrees of love 10. Of the fourth degree of love, wherein man does not even love self, save for God’s sake 11. Of the attainment of this perfection of love only at the resurrection 12. Of love: out of a letter to the Carthusians 13. Of the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelings 14. Of the law of the love of sons 15. Of the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly fatherland.