Quotes Tagged With :monasticism

The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.

...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force."....

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

You are not here to verify,instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere....

You were contemplating the mountain, Mr. Conway?" Came the inquiry."Yes, it's a fine sight. It has a....

My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess.....

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting....

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

Life never seems to prepare us sufficiently for epiphanies. ... they are not magical intrusions from....

To leave town, and the struggle and the swim of life, and go and hide yourself in a farmhouse is not....