How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is. Bernard of Clairvaux More Quotes by Bernard of Clairvaux More Quotes From Bernard of Clairvaux Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters. Bernard of Clairvaux vines learning tree 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 grace giving order 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 done grace 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 tree wind book The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too. Bernard of Clairvaux praying looks thinking To serve Mary is a mark of eternal salvation to come. Bernard of Clairvaux mary mark salvation Love me, love my dog. Bernard of Clairvaux wisdom dog love 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 Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters. Bernard of Clairvaux nature believe book I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks. Bernard of Clairvaux oaks masters Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces and comprehends with all the saints the length and breath, the height and depth, that is the eternity, the love, the goodness, and the wisdom of God. Bernard of Clairvaux understanding soul two Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE! Bernard of Clairvaux sacraments made jesus I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being. Bernard of Clairvaux my-own god knows Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory. Bernard of Clairvaux benefits pride use God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you. Bernard of Clairvaux reborn spirituality gods-will Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not. Bernard of Clairvaux kings said jesus A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him. Bernard of Clairvaux saint doe men Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me. Bernard of Clairvaux learning love firsts Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. Bernard of Clairvaux dies lord 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 holy grace facts
