Cistercians Quotes

#1. The Cistercians do not eat meat ... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

Walter Map

#2. Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books.

Susan Hill

#3. Incidentally, although the Cistercians did much to improve the quality of sheep, the animal remained much smaller than its modern descendants; as late as the early eighteenth century a sheep wasn't much bulkier than a Labrador Dog.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

#4. With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#5. What do you mean exactly? Sounds like you figured something out.

James Dashner

#6. Most of the time, I'm in the country, and the jewelry I wear I can wear in the country.

Elsa Peretti

#7. The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.

Albert Einstein

#8. Look for the message in the mistake, and the magical in the mundane.

Joanne Madeline Moore

#9. The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

Morgan Llywelyn

#10. Your body is a sacred-temple of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.

John Updike

#12. Wesley mantra
Look but don't touch ... look but don't touch ...

Tiffany Reisz

#13. But maintaining eye contact can also become a way of "acting spiritual" and, therefore, an intrusive affectation. There are also people who maintain rigid eye lock not from an attitude

Sam Harris

#14. When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.

Zach Weinersmith

#15. Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest. If we spend excessive time with sporting events, however, we may neglect things that are much more important.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#16. One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Oliver Stone