Templars Quote by Michael Baigent

Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

— Kathryn Hulme

For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve her husband,…

— Amanda Foreman

“The declared objective of the Templars, Guillaume de Tyre continues, was, "as far as their strength permitted, they should keep the roads and highways…

— Michael Baigent

“In 1146 the Templars adopted the famous splayed red cross—the cross pattée.”

— Michael Baigent

“All members of the order were obliged to wear white habits of surcoats and cloaks, and these soon evolved into the distinctive white mantle…

— Michael Baigent

“the first historical information on the Templars is provided by a Frankish historian, Guillaume de Tyre, who wrote between 1175 and 1185.”

— Michael Baigent

“in 1522 the Templars’ Prussian progeny, the Teutonic Knights, secularized themselves, repudiated their allegiance to Rome, and threw their support behind an upstart rebel…

— Michael Baigent

This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

— Gabriel Marcel

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

— Carolyn Wheat

“The monk assumes a robe, changes his name, shaves his head, enters a cell and takes a vow of poverty and chastity; in the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Humi lity, poverty, chastity are his (the p h i los­ opher' s) way of being a grand vivant, of making a temple o…

— Anonymous

A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.

— Umberto Eco