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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.

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

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

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”

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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