On Loving GodSaint Bernard of ClairvauxRead On Loving God by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Complete text, chapter contents and the illustrated page reader.Read the text and contentsDedication1. Why we should love God and the measure of that love2. 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 Giver3. What greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love God4. Of those who find comfort in the recollection of God, or are fittest for His love5. Of the Christian's debt of love, how great it is6. A brief summary7. Of love toward God not without reward: and how the hunger of man's heart cannot be satisfied with earthly things8. Of the first degree of love: wherein man loves self for self’s sake9. Of the second and third degrees of love10. Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God's sake11. Of the attainment of this perfection of love only at the resurrection12. Of love: out of a letter to the Carthusians13. Of the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelings14. Of the law of the love of sons15. Of the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly fatherland