St Benedict Quotes

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  • Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

    Philosophy   Two   Skulls  
    J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)
  • The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way He hath shown me in truth for me and those who will believe and imitate me. And therefore I would that ye name not to me any rule, neither of St. Augustine, nor St. Benedict, nor of Bernard, nor any way or form of living, but that which was mercifully shown and given me by the Lord.

    Life   Believe   Humility  
  • Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.

    Colman McCarthy (1977). “The pleasures of the game: the theory free guide to golf”
  • We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

    Alasdair MacIntyre (1981). “After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
  • In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.

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