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“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.”

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Bernard of Clairvaux

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

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