Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The voice that called us years ago still calls us today. Every monastic day is a new monastic beginning. — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
“Monastic contemplatives have staked out a clearly limited area to be transformed by contemplation: the monastery. Lay contemplatives face the challenge of… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the great dangers faced by monastic practitioners is that, after a few months or a few years or a few… — Michael Casey Copy Share Image
I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I've always loved the Sangha. I have the deepest, deepest respect for them. I'm very sorry that in the West people don't… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
In a monastic setting, if someone doesn't want to obey the rules and just wants to live the way they've always lived… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“Hospitality is a prized virtue of monastic communities. Benedict's rule says: 'All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ,… — Ken Shigematsu Copy Share Image
By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Monastic spirituality concentrated on private disciplines, as if detaching oneself from "the world" (i.e. society) might make one holier. Anabaptist piety was… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“As a teenager, his teachers recognized his academic prowess and brilliant intelligence. They suggested he move into monastic life in order to… — Charles Benedict Copy Share Image
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
“By the early fifth century, the Church that had begun as a tiny group of fishermen and other poor people meeting in… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“Not celibate are they who wear monastic garb and shut themselves away behind thick walls and massive iron gates, But celibate are… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
Working in film, I'm sure you have insight into this, there's something great that only comes by way of interactions with others… — John Maus Copy Share Image
The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Mount Carmel was a very monastic place. We lived in another time - an easier time, a better time. We didn't have… — David Thibodeau Copy Share Image
You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of… — Paula D'Arcy Copy Share Image
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