10 Quotes About Monasticism

Monasteries are an important part of the Christian tradition. They are places where Christians can live out their faith in a disciplined, yet joyful way. So whether you are looking for monastic quotes about monasticism or want to learn more about this spiritually-focused life, these quotes will inspire you.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in...
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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 by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. Thomas Merton
The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock]...
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The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] – He wants us to be good and kind. Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
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Life never seems to prepare us sufficiently for epiphanies.... they are not magical intrusions from another world, but reality, naked, and without shame. Unknown
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My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial and material things. This is not envy, " said Mr. Konishi earnestly. "I am a rich man, with much business, so I have succeeded in all these things, but I know that they are empty. Rumer Godden
The human heart Is unknowable. But in my birthplace The...
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The human heart Is unknowable. But in my birthplace The flowers still smell The same as always. Rumer Godden
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To leave town, and the struggle and the swim of life, and go and hide yourself in a farmhouse is not life -- it is egoism, laziness; it is a kind of monasticism, but monasticism without action. A man needs, not six feet of land, not a farm, but the whole earth, all Nature, where in full liberty he can display all the properties and qualities of the free spirit. Anton Chekhov
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You are not here to verify, instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying. T. S. Eliot
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The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the Mount. It is high time people banded together to do this. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha Hermann Hesse