Trappist Monk Quotes

#1. I should have been a Trappist monk.

David Blunkett

#2. The Trappist monk Thomas Keating once said, The cross Jesus asked you to carry is yourself. It's all the pain inflicted on you in your past and all the pain you've inflicted on others.

Brennan Manning

#3. If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined.

Karen Traviss

#4. A lady decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather.

George Egerton

#5. I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.

Prince

#6. I shut my eyes and she was again the same as she used to be: she was the hiss of steam, the clink of a cup, she was a certain hour of the night and the promise of rest.

Graham Greene

#7. The wealthiest man among us is the best

William Wordsworth

#8. Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

Thomas Merton

#9. Listen: it's got to be all honeymoon, always.
Either heaven, or hell:
no comfortable safe peaceful purgatory between
for you and me to wait in until good behavior or forbearance
or shame or repentance overtakes us.

William Faulkner

#10. You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that ... to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I'm a foreigner, too.

Barbara Kingsolver