Quotes about Monasticism

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but — Thomas Merton, The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals
The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind. — Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Life never seems to prepare us sufficiently for epiphanies. ... they are not magical intrusions from another world, but — Monks of New Skete, In The Spirit of Happiness: A Book of Spiritual Wisdom
My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffoca — Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede
The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always. — Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede
To leave town, and the struggle and the swim of life, and go and hide yourself in a farmhouse is not life -- it is egois — Anton Chekhov, The Complete Short Novels
You are not here to verify,instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has — T. S. Eliot
Darkness is a kind of visual silence, and monks love it. — Matthew Kelty
You were contemplating the mountain, Mr. Conway?" Came the inquiry."Yes, it's a fine sight. It has a name, I suppose?""I — James Hilton, Lost Horizon
The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromisi — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddar — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha