A fine biographer of Bernard details for about six hundred pages the drift of this paragraph, but we will get to our immediate point without further ado. The young abbot was speaking to his community one day, and he made a remark that shocked me on my first reading of it. “There are more people converted from mortal sin to grace, than there are religious converted from good to better.” Over the years the more I have experienced of life and thought about this statement the more I have been convinced