Quotes About Benedictine

#1. It may be fashionable to assert that all is holy, but not many are willing to haul ass to church four or five times a day to sing about it. It's not for the faint of heart.

Kathleen Norris

#2. When we were starting our community a bunch of older Benedictine nuns said to us, "If you have any questions or want to pick our brains, please do - we've been doing community for about 1,500 years together so we've learned a few things."

Shane Claiborne

#3. 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

#4. The danger is in becoming so seduced by the lexiconic that we became lexiphanes. There's no excuse for indulging in the bombastic at any time, of course.

Murray Waldren

#5. If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

Gregory Maguire

#6. Dear God, give bread to those who are hungry and a hunger and thirst for justice to those who have plenty. Amen.

Benedictine Prayer

#7. In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

Florence Welch

#8. 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

#9. I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.

Lara Stone

#10. Dad followed his I'm-So-Disappointed speech with a lecture on career opportunities.
"You're going to study literature and get a job doing what?" he said. "Literaturizing?

David Sedaris

#11. 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

#12. I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.

Edward Gibbon

#13. You must guard your mouth, because no matter what you say, you are launching weapons of one sort or another.

Terry Law

#14. Why do you have to go and make Things so complicated ...

Avril Lavigne

#15. You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.

Rachel Klein

#16. Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

Jacques Delors

#17. The story was heavy in her hands, the book spread open like legs, the letters very small i spite of describing such a big moment

Natalia Jaster

#18. Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

Earl Sweatshirt

#19. Being Benedictine--a monastic or an oblate--means trying a little harder to show the courtesy of love for one another, to see Christ in the people with whom, we live, work and pray--and to look for Him even in the people with whom we disagree.

Benet Tvedten

#20. We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.

Francis Chan

#21. 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