Quotes About St Benedict

#1. In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.

Peter Maurin

#2. Disturbing crunch as
Skin is punctured for access
Sweet, warm, filling blood

Debby Feo

#3. Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

Gary Hamel

#4. Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.

Paul A. Volcker

#5. Run while you have the light of life, that the darkness of death may overtake you not." (Rule of St. Benedict))

Frances Greenslade

#6. There is no God other than life itself.

Rajneesh

#7. The Medal of St. Benedict,

J. M. Barlog

#8. As the old saying goes, you can't spell unprofessional, unethical, or unaccountable without the UN.

Brad Thor

#9. 265. "Let the oratory be what it is called, and let nothing else be done or stored there. When the work of God is finished, let all go out with the deepest silence and let reverence be shown to God."~

St. Benedict

#10. What I set seems to never extinguish

Drake

#11. You propose to give up everything to God; be sure, then, to include yourself among the things to be given up. - ST. BENEDICT.

Various

#12. St. Benedict said to take care of your mind, body and soul. I swim for an hour every morning, do 15 minutes of Tibetan stretching and breathing exercises, and play soccer with friends four or more nights a week.

Brunello Cucinelli

#13. I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

Francesca Annis

#14. He always had a different girlfriend and you could tell they were all easy but a nun would turn easy at one look at Luke.

Kristen Ashley

#15. Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

J.M. Coetzee

#16. Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.

Colman McCarthy

#17. We are not waiting for a Godot, but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#18. Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.

Pope Benedict XVI