Quotes About Monasticism

#1. In monasticism you don't get a trendy new Jesus, you get the same old Jesus everyone gets.

Daniel Homan

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

Paul Wilkes

#3. 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

#4. The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the Mount. It is high time people banded together to do this.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#5. The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#6. Monasticism is really based on the idea that if you leave people, you leave the spirit of the world. But you do not. You can leave the world in a physical sense, you can leave the crowd and the people; but there in your lonely cell the spirit of the world may still be with you.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#7. The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to name sin is a theological achievement.

Stanley Hauerwas

#8. Life never seems to prepare us sufficiently for epiphanies. ... they are not magical intrusions from another world, but reality, naked, and without shame.

Monks Of New Skete

#9. All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,
as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#10. I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990].

Gloria Estefan

#11. The world is made up of words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.

Martha Plimpton

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

Rumer Godden

#14. The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

Joan Robinson

#15. A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.

Lao-Tzu

#16. Lucas's tone was hard. You made her cry, Nathan. You made your mate cry and then you didn't hold her.

Nalini Singh

#17. Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Thomas Merton

#18. The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

Pete Rose

#19. You live in the greatest museum imaginable. Isn't it time you left the lobby and took a look at some of the incredible exhibits?

Ron Lizzi

#20. A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un, I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be? An' I reckon it's abou' time yeh read yer letter.

J.K. Rowling

#21. The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] - He wants us to be good and kind.

Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

#22. THE DOG AND THE SPARROW

Jacob Grimm

#23. The beauty of ethics is that nobody can be perfectly certain about what it includes or even what it means.

Robertson Davies

#24. 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

#25. Lucky! I can only eat glitter and rainbows. Darn my sensitive stomach!

Bob Shea

#26. For you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force. Vesadeva to Siddartha

Hermann Hesse

#27. Darkness is a kind of visual silence, and monks love it.

Matthew Kelty

#28. I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way.

Sharlto Copley