Quotes About Monk

The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.

A Buddhist monk has a responsibility first and foremost to themselves, and that's to find the truth each day in every part of their life.

Come now, Susina, remember you were always a saint when it came to a handsome face." "Not when it comes to yours, you demi-demon." "Ah, Susina. And my charming friend dying at your door." "I am not the hospital. I do not take the wounded in." "This once." "I have patrons and guests. You be circumspect." "As a monk, dear lady of delights." "Pah.

Entre dos peñas feroces, un fraile daba voces».

You become a monk because you think there's no better choice for you. No other reason could make any sense.

D?gen's big question when he was a young monk was this: If Buddhism teaches that we're all perfect just as we are — and it does teach that — then why do we have to undergo training? A whole lot of Sh?b?genz? is D?gen's attempt to answer that question.

travels as slowly through centuries of monkish dulness, when the world seems to have been asleep

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

ordained Zen monk

Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul.

The monk solved his immediate problem by giving a little whimper and fainting.

he whispered in the king's ear, "If you ask me, I think you should find a wife for Siddhartha. Once he has a family to occupy him, he will abandon this desire to become a monk." King Suddhodana nodded.

The monk, Gregory the Great, tells how a nun, in her greed, ate a lettuce without first making the sign of the cross to protect herself against the evil spirits that hide between its leaves, and so she became possessed by a demon. Greetwell

By the destruction of his Cravings, This monk hath extinguished Hunger, and hath attained Nirvana.

And why would a monk slit my throat, Stillwater?' She shrugged. 'Who can figure out the mind of a monk?

During the Inquisition, the renegade monk Giordano Bruno was burned alive at the stake for suggesting that God, in His infinite power, created innumerable worlds.

I like to read psychologist's books. 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari,' that's one of my favorites. Those kinds of books.

I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldn't reconcile.

O hábito não faz o monge,mas o crime ou a sua presunção fazem o detetive,sobretudo o amador.

My temple followed the Zen tradition; therefore every one of us from the highest monk to the newest member equally followed the principle of no work, no food.

In reality the monk abandons the world only in order to listen more intently to the deepest and most neglected voices that proceed from its inner depth.

I simply have no business being in love and playing around with a girl, however innocently.... After all I am supposed to be a monk with a vow of chastity and though I have kept my vow—I wonder if I can keep it indefinitely and still play this gorgeous game!

For the monk searches not only his own heart: he plunges deep into the heart of that world of which he remains a part although he seems to have left it. In reality the monk abandons the world only in order to listen more intently to the deepest and most neglected voices that proceed from its inner depth.

No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.