Monastic Quotes
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Monastic Quotes & Sayings
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Do what you are doing. Monastic motto
— Rick Perlstein
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
— Cullen Hightower
It probably takes many years of monastic practice to equal the spiritual growth generated by one sleepless night with a sick child.
— Douglas Abrams
I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.
— Joni Mitchell
We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
— Shane Claiborne
All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
— Hildegard Of Bingen
The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic.
— Ronald Rolheiser
It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are we repulsed.
— Princess Diana
It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
— Billie Jean King
Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Monastic incarceration is castration.
— Victor Hugo
Without love, we will not be able to bring revival to this earth.
— Sunday Adelaja
Unusual degree. This family became divided eight generations
— Charles Darwin
I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
— Marcus Buckingham
Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.
— Bikram Choudhury
The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;
— David Mitchell
Text talk? How can the art of writing, once performed by monastic scribes, have degenerated into little more than creative candyfloss?
— Fennel Hudson
Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.
— Karl Jaspers
Prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions - simple, basic, healthy, balanced.
— Mary DeTurris Poust
The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition.
— Edward Gibbon
Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive.
— Melody Beattie
Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body.
— Victor Hugo
The true religion is monastic, ascetic, authoritarian, hierarchical.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
My body kills me, so I kill it.
— Dorotheus The Theban
Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.
— Ted Sizer
Of the monastic institutions on which it depended. Since celibate monks tended to
— Stephen Batchelor
Stagnation and inactivity bring spiritual death.
— Thomas Merton
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
— R. Buckminster Fuller