Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cistwas a French abbot and the primary reformer for the Cistercian order...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionClergyman
CountryFrance
humility pride fur
Humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
humility path study
As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
humility grace doe
Humility is, of all graces , the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.
humility wish faults
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
humble humility lows
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
humility important three
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.
christ sinner washed
I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of Christ and not by Christ's 'words and example.'
furs lacking people surely
There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
answer god himself
You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
spirituality reborn gods-will
God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you.
angel wine tears
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
jesus fall compassion
Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;"Be thou whole," say openly:"I forgive thee all.
lord dies
Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
choices grace doe
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.