On Loving God by Saint Bernard Of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153)
00:00:00 Why we should love God, and the measure of that love
00:06:16 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
00:16:16 What greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love God
00:24:56 Of those who find comfort in there collection of God, or are fittest for His love
00:33:54 Of the Christian's debt of love, how great it is
00:40:45 A brief summary
00:44:36 Of love toward God not without reward: and how the hunger of man's heart cannot be satisfied with earthly things
00:58:02 Of the first degree of love: wherein man loves God for self's sake
01:04:50 Of the second and third degrees of love
01:09:40 Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God's sake
01:17:14 Of the attainment of this perfection of love only at the resurrection
01:27:11 Of love: out of a letter to the Carthusians
01:33:44 Of the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelings
01:38:24 Of the law of the love of sons
01:43:25 Of the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly fatherland
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