Benedict Quote by J.M. Barlog

The 'Rule of St. Benedict' makes it possible for ordinary folk to live lives of quite extraordinary value. The weak have a place to…

— Basil Hume

“In his Rule, St. Benedict wisely writes that "always we begin again.”

— Christine Valters Paintner

“You propose to give up everything to God; be sure, then, to include yourself among the things to be given up.—ST. BENEDICT.”

— Various

We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict,

— Alasdair MacIntyre

In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual…

— Peter Maurin

“St. Benedict and every Benedictine who has followed (one prays) understood that the monastery is not a place to hide from problems; it is…

— Carrie Gress

The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way He hath shown me in truth for me and those…

— Francis of Assisi

Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.

— Colman McCarthy

I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find…

— Neil Peart

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a…

— Anonymous

“How am I going to help you?” “You are going to jump.” “Ha.” “You are.” “Have you done this before?” “Yeah, with fruit.” That…

— Joss Stirling

“I daily discover so much baseness and ingratitude among mankind that I almost blush at being of the same species, and could quit the…

— Willard Sterne Randall