Quotes of Monk - somelinesforyou

“ The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he. ”

- Walter Brower

“ Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709 Life is at its noblest and its best when our effort cooperates with God's grace to produce the necessary loveliness. ”

- William Barclay

“ My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. ”

- John Keats

“ We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. ”

- Alexander Herzen

“ You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life. ”

- St. Vincent Pallotti

“ There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. ”

- Tom Hanks

“ Its language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting. ”

- Clifford Longley

“ And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. ”

- George Herbert

“ The violet is a nun. ”

- Thomas Hood

“ Don't be a BEN brother, should have been, would have been, could have been, or might have been. ”

- Unknown

“ The habit does not make the monk. ”

- John Dryden

“ Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, And smooth his path from earth to heaven! ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ He adopts the opinion of others like a monk in the Sorbonne. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ A precious pair of brothers. ”

- John Heywood

“ He has a deep awareness of music like (Thelonious) Monk, Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock and Wayne (Shorter). ”

- Carlos Santana

“ When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Far better a neighbour that is near than a brother far off. ”

- Bible

“ And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt. ”

- Bible

“ Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels. ”

- Charles II

“ And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. ”

- Bible

“ And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. ”

- Bible

“ Brother to Brother. ”

- Jack Nicholson

“ A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong. ”

- Charles V

“ But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. ”

- Bible

“ He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. ”

- Bible

“ To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night — brothers who see now they are truly brothers. ”

- Archibald MacLeish

“ It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say. ”

- Thomas Merton

“ I felt like poisoning a monk. ”

- Umberto Eco
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