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If I were to ask about my seven months at the Abbey, "Did it work, did I solve my problems?" the simple answer would be, "It did not work, it did not solve my problems." And I know that a year, two years, or even a lifetime as a Trappist monk would not have "worked" either. Because a monastery is not built to solve problems but to praise the Lord in the midst of them. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Trappist Monk quotes by Henri J.M. Nouwen
The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language. ~ Leon Uris
Trappist Monk quotes by Leon Uris
I should have been a Trappist monk. ~ David Blunkett
Trappist Monk quotes by David Blunkett
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. ~ Thomas Merton
Trappist Monk quotes by Thomas Merton
There were parts of Monk she admired greatly: his courage; his strength of will; his intelligence; his loyalty to his beliefs; his passion for justice; his ability to face almost any kind of truth, no matter how dreadful; and the fact that he was never, ever, a hypocrite. ~ Anne Perry
Trappist Monk quotes by Anne Perry
Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back. ~ Chris Avellone
Trappist Monk quotes by Chris Avellone
I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences. ~ Maria Monk
Trappist Monk quotes by Maria Monk
I don't want to be a reality TV star - that's not for me. ~ Sophie Monk
Trappist Monk quotes by Sophie Monk
I've heard a Buddhist monk suggest the number of food-caused deaths is minimized in steak dinners, which share one death over many meals, whereas the equation is reversed for a bowl of clams. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Trappist Monk quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
Back then, Miss Sarah pulled words up from her throat like she was raising water from a well. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Trappist Monk quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
She was a small, hot-tempered woman who wore a widow's cap with strings floating at her cheeks, and when it was cold, a squirrely fur cloak and tiny fur-lined shoes. She was known to line girls up on the Idle Bench for the smallest infraction and scream at them until they fainted. I despised her, and her "polite education for the female mind," which was composed ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Trappist Monk quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
Philip looked incredulously at the tiny bundle in Johnny's arms. He reached out a hand tentatively, and lifted a corner of the blanket. He saw a wrinkled pink face, an open toothless mouth and a little bald head - a miniature of an aging monk. ~ Ken Follett
Trappist Monk quotes by Ken Follett
I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision. ~ Kathryn Harrison
Trappist Monk quotes by Kathryn Harrison
I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Trappist Monk quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Trappist Monk quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
Only Zorbas become Buddhas - and Buddha was never a monk, A monk is one who has never been a Zorba and has become enchanted by the words of Buddhas. A monk is an imitator, he is false, pseudo. He imitates Buddhas. He may be Christian, he may be Buddhist, he may be a Hindu - that doesn't make much difference - but he imitates Buddhas. ~ Rajneesh
Trappist Monk quotes by Rajneesh
Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.
It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief. ~ Charles Dickens
Trappist Monk quotes by Charles Dickens
I was now officially Beckstrom the storm rod. And I hated it. ~ Devon Monk
Trappist Monk quotes by Devon Monk
From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse. ~ Tom Robbins
Trappist Monk quotes by Tom Robbins
One of the Franciscans says later, "A monk should own nothing but his harp"; meaning, I suppose, that he should value nothing but his song, the song with which it was his business as a minstrel to serenade every castle and cottage, the song of the joy of the Creator in His creation and the beauty of the brotherhood of men. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Trappist Monk quotes by G.K. Chesterton
I cannot forget that you left me. That knowledge will always remain in a corner of me, but I wish to let myself be loved. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Trappist Monk quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
I'll go first. I dare Kope to kiss Anna.
It's like a monk kissing a nun. Brilliant. I lean back and cross my arms, enjoying their shifty-eyed embarrassment. Anna suddenly stands, I'm assuming to get far away from me, but instead she heads straight for me and kicks my chair up. I lose my balance and topple backward like an idiot. But when I look up and see her standing over me with eyes ablaze, I can only grin.
There's my girl. I'm relieved I've made her feel something. ~ Wendy Higgins
Trappist Monk quotes by Wendy Higgins
My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude. ~ Wladyslaw Reymont
Trappist Monk quotes by Wladyslaw Reymont
The secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in one good detail. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Trappist Monk quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
I think every pain in this world wants to be witnessed. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Trappist Monk quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
Magic is a heartless bitch, and she's had me by the throat for years. ~ Devon Monk
Trappist Monk quotes by Devon Monk
Jonathan Sacks; "One way is just to think, for instance, of biodiversity. The extraordinary thing we now know, thanks to Crick and Watson's discovery of DNA and the decoding of the human and other genomes, is that all life, everything, all the three million species of life and plant life - all have the same source. We all come from a single source. Everything that lives has its genetic code written in the same alphabet. Unity creates diversity. So don't think of one God, one truth, one way. Think of one God creating this extraordinary number of ways, the 6,800 languages that are actually spoken. Don't think there's only one language within which we can speak to God. The Bible is saying to us the whole time: Don't think that God is as simple as you are. He's in places you would never expect him to be. And you know, we lose a bit of that in English translation. When Moses at the burning bush says to God, "Who are you?" God says to him three words: "Hayah asher hayah."Those words are mistranslated in English as "I am that which I am." But in Hebrew, it means "I will be who or how or where I will be," meaning, Don't think you can predict me. I am a God who is going to surprise you. One of the ways God surprises us is by letting a Jew or a Christian discover the trace of God's presence in a Buddhist monk or a Sikh tradition of hospitality or the graciousness of Hindu life. Don't think we can confine God into our categories. God is bigger than religion. ~ Krista Tippett
Trappist Monk quotes by Krista Tippett
Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago. ~ Sam Hamill
Trappist Monk quotes by Sam Hamill
The feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers
all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Trappist Monk quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
You do your rebellions any way you can. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Trappist Monk quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable. ~ Loren Eiseley
Trappist Monk quotes by Loren Eiseley
What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Trappist Monk quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Trappist Monk quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Trappist Monk quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The Negro is not some other kind of creature than we are. Whiteness is not sacred. It can't on defining everything. ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Trappist Monk quotes by Sue Monk Kidd
Contrary to popular stereotypes, seeking simplicity doesn't require that you become a monk, a subsistence forager, or a wild-eyed revolutionary. Nor does it mean that you must unconditionally avoid the role of consumer. Rather, simplicity merely requires a bit of personal sacrifice: an adjustment of your habits and routines within consumer society itself. ~ Rolf Potts
Trappist Monk quotes by Rolf Potts
I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering. ~ Gautama Buddha
Trappist Monk quotes by Gautama Buddha
I watched as he comprehended what it was that he saw on my face, in my eyes. And I watched as a part of him shut down, locked away from me forever. And I hid the fact that my heart was breaking even as I lied to him, even as I broke his. And I swore I would never let him know otherwise, or I would truly be lost and the war would be over. ~ Nicola Claire
Trappist Monk quotes by Nicola Claire
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