Quotes Tagged With :monasticism

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

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

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

The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the....

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

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

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

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

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

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