On the danger of undeserved praise (Bernard of Clairvaux)

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For which of us who takes heed to his ways can listen without either great fear or great danger, to praises of himself so great and so undeserved? It is not safe for any one to commit himself to his own judgment or even to the judgment of another; for He who judgeth us is the Lord (1 Corinthians iv. 4).

Letter I (circa 1120) to the Canon Regular of Horricourt in Some Letters of Saint Bernard Abbot of Clairvaux. From the Translation by the Late Dr. Eales Vicar of Stalefield, ed. Francis Aidan Gasquet (London: John Hodges, 1904), p. 2.
 
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