Monasticism Quote by Paul Wilkes

“Consider what a child misses during the 15, 000 hours (from birth to age seventeen) he spends in front of the TV screen. He…

— Paul Copperman

“Monasticism is not about dogma; it is about God and an authentic spirituality. Its simple truths beckon to be rediscovered.”

— Paul Wilkes

“My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial…

— Rumer Godden

“Monasticism is really based on the idea that if you leave people, you leave the spirit of the world. But you do not. You…

— David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind.”

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

“I keep vigil over the stories of men and the stories of things, in case I can discern some secret message of my Love.”

— Nikolaj Velimirović

Islam, in contrast to Christianity and Buddhism, does not have monasticism; spiritual life, social life, they are all integrated and related together in one…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Without dioceses, local parishes and village churches could barely continue, even if the villages themselves could have long survived the constant turmoil and bloodshed.…

— Philip Jenkins

The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“We often conceive of worldly life as merely a kind of default existence that anyone who is not specially called to monasticism or ordination…

— Daniel G. Opperwall

“The human heart Is unknowable. But in my birthplace The flowers still smell The same as always.”

— Rumer Godden

“The monk's ultimate goal is direct union with the Godhead. But to aim at that goal is to miss it altogether. His task is…

— Walter M. Miller Jr