Is it because of a belief that these little children have no need of the Saviour, inasmuch as they are little?
Is it then for nought that our Lord from being great became little?
What say I?
Is it then for nought that He was scourged and spat upon, crucified and dead ?" St.Bernard preached with great success in Toulouse itself, but he was not satisfied with easy successes.

He had come to fight the heretics; and he went to look for them where he was told he would find them numerous and powerful.

"He repaired," says a contemporary chronicler, "to the castle of Vertfeuil (or Verfeil, in the district of Toulouse), where flourished at that time the scions of a numerous nobility and of a multitude of people, thinking that, if he could extinguish heretical perversity in this place where it was so very much spread, it would be easy for him to make head against it elsewhere.

When he had begun preaching, in the church, against those who were of most consideration in the place, they went out, and the people followed them; but the holy man, going out after them, gave utterance to the word of God in the public streets.

The nobles then hid themselves on all sides in their houses; and as for him, he continued to preach to the common people who came about him.