Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

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

Bernard of Clairvaux

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• I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Proud
  • Reputation
  • Stingy

• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Sword

• There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Grow

• For fitness, I've just bought a watch which keeps a track of how many calories I burn, what's my heart rate, which is very fascinating.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Heart
  • Fitness
  • Burn

• G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real troops than many other franchises.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Heart
  • Feel
  • Attitude

• Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Fear

• What happens in the heart simply happens.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Heart
  • Happens
  • Simply

• The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Learned

• I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Patriotic

• Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Summer

• You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Heart
  • True

• The happiest day - the happiest hourMy sear'd and blighted heart hath known,The highest hope of pride and power,I feel hath flown.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Hope

• And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy,The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Heart
  • Fashion
  • Joy

• How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Art
  • Alone
  • Proud

• 'Tis strange how the heart can createOr colour from itself its fate;We make ourselves our own distress,We are ourselves our happiness.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Heart
  • Fate

• Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Money
  • Heart

• One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Young

• I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart.

  

  S.C. Stephens
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Fire

• Ethics in government has always been important to me.

  

  Chris Bell Big Star
  • Important
  • Ethics

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

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Heart
  • Proud
  • Grace