Monastery Quotes

46 quotes by 43 authors

I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for… — Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria
Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in… — Dalai Lama
An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the… — Bronislaw Malinowski
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief,… — Steve Jobs
Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the… — John Muir
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the… — Frederick Lenz
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen master there, or… — Frederick Lenz
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which… — Quentin Crisp
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English… — Benedict Cumberbatch
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. — John Keats
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.… — Neal Stephenson
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired… — Anthony de Mello
The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out… — Terry Pratchett
Damned mating heat. Lawe is threatening to join a monastery and Rule's threatening to quit. Why don't you two try to show the younger guys… — Lora Leigh
Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can… — Julia Cameron
Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became. — Anton Szandor LaVey
I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my… — John Green
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery. — Martin Luther

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