Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

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

• God
• Pride
• Glory
• Gifts

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• Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

  

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• Law is order, and good law is good order.

  

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• God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

  

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• 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
  • God
  • Pride
  • Glory