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On the Love of God addresses the reasons we ought to love God and the manner and different degrees of this love. St. Bernard teaches that God Himself is the motive of our love for him and that nothing is more reasonable and nothing more profitable than loving him. He then lays out the degrees whereby the soul proceeds from loving God for its own sake to loving the self only for God.

CHAPTER X THE FOURTH DEGREE OF LOVE IS TO LOVE SELF ONLY FOR GOD HAPPY is he who can rise to the fourth degree of love, and loves himself only for God’s sake. “Thy justice, O Lord, is as the high mountains.” It is even so of this fourth degree of love, “a great mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell.” “Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord?” “Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly thither and be at rest?” “His place is in peace, and his abode in Zion.” “Woe is me that
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