Benedictine Spirituality Quotes

#1. Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never exaggerate. It is a lesson that a world full of cults and fads and workaholics and short courses in difficult subjects needs dearly to learn.

Joan D. Chittister

#2. In Benedictine spirituality, work is what we do to continue what God wanted done ... God goes on creating through us. Consequently a life spent serving God must be a life spent giving to others what we have been given.

Joan D. Chittister

#3. Benedictine spirituality, after all,
is life lived to the hilt.
It is a life of concentration
on life's ordinary dimensions.
It is an attempt to do
the ordinary things of life
extraordinarily well.

Joan D. Chittister

#4. I came into the world under the sign of Saturn
the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

Walter Benjamin

#5. Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.
There's nothing situate under heaven's eye
But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.

William Shakespeare

#6. But if you sit around thinking what to do and end up not doing anything, why bother even thinking about it? You're better off going out on the town and having a good time. No, we have to think and act. That's what we're doing here, and that's what you have to do.

Elvia Alvarado

#7. Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what y ou are expecting in life.

Joan D. Chittister

#8. Thinking about the bacon - the potential of bacon - gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't.

Rick Yancey

#9. Mr. Browne's precept for October was: YOUR DEEDS ARE YOUR MONUMENTS.

R.J. Palacio