Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him.

Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

The Lord has blessed me more than I deserve.

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.

We receive God's grace by humbly admitting that we need it.

Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness that what we have of good is due to the grace of God.

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

The favor of God does not bless self-promotion

Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.

No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

Men and Women of Christ magnify their callings without magnifying themselves.

Anyone who truly walks with God, walks humbly. The closer we draw near to Him, the more we behold His majesty!

Humility is a natural symptom of those who love God.