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Bernard of Clairvaux, born in 1090 and died on August 20, 1153, was an individual of an unknown profession/category.

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Famous Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

“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.”

Book Soul Enemy Teach Greater Grace Tree Wind Masters Source Stones Mercy Woods Burning Streams Gates Dew Ingratitude

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

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

Men Heart Grace Proud Flow Rivers Cliffs Steep Proud Man

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“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.”

Ifs Doe Done Whole Choices Half Grace Contribution Peculiar Qualifications One Half Free Choice

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

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

Knows Doe Grace Humility

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“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.”

Should Facts Found Grace Holy Filled

Book:Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum

Source: 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.”

Giving Order Grace Salvation Free Will

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“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.”

Soul Enemy Grace Wind Source Mercy Burning Streams Thankfulness Dew Ingratitude

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

About the Author

Born: 1090
Died: August 20, 1153
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Quotes: 112

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Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of ClairvauxRelated source material

Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorumRelated source material

On Loving God: Selection from SermonsRelated source material

Cantica Canticorum: Eighty-six Sermons on the Song of SolomonRelated source material

Commentary on the Song of SongsRelated source material

LettersRelated source material

Life and Works of Saint BernardRelated source material

On ConsiderationRelated source material

Saint Bernard On ConsiderationRelated source material

Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux: Selections from His Letters, Meditations, Sermons, Hymns, and Other Writings, Rendered Into English by Horatio GrimleyRelated source material

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