It’s not as if grace did one half of the work and free choi… - Bernard of Clairvaux

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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

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About Bernard of Clairvaux

St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 – August 21 1153), abbot of Clairvaux, was a highly influential French churchman, theologian and mystic. He was one of the founders of the Cistercian, or Bernardine, monastic order.

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Alternative Names: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux • Saint Bernard • St. Bernard of Clairvaux • St. Bernard • Bernhard • Bernardus Claraevallensis • Bernardus Claravallensis • Bernard de Clairvaux

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Among us on the earth there is His memory; but in the Kingdom of heaven His very Presence. That Presence is the joy of those who have already attained to beatitude; the memory is the comfort of us who are still wayfarers, journeying towards the Fatherland.

Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].

Impassibilis est Deus, sed non incompassibilis.

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 w… - Bernard of Clairvaux

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