Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Wind, Grace, Soul

• Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Book, Wind, Tree

• The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Heart, Men, Rivers

• Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Humility, Grace, Doe

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 329), 1895.

• For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Grace, Facts, Holy

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1952). “Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum”

• Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Order, Giving, Grace

• It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Choices, Grace, Done

  "On Grace & Free Choice". Book by Bernard of Clairvaux, 1988.

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