Quotes About Benedict

Screens in a Zen meditation place are pulled back at dusk, to let the mosquitoes in. · A monastery, for St. Benedict, was "a school for charity." A Zen temple might be called a school for clarity. The challenge in either tradition is to see how one leads to the other.

People call me Benny. And as long as they put Benedict on my paycheck, I don't care.

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

I was a sucker for glamorous women in shoulderpads eating fancy things like eggs benedict.

We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

Benedict is bumbly, sweet, affable; the nicest man you've met.

Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit.

My plans never progressed as far as a clear desire for a family.

I caught a couple of landmarks and knew we were on Benedict Canyon Drive, getting up into the hills. I'd driven here several times before—in happier days—and I knew almost all the road. It was hilly along here and there were steep clifflike drops and sloping ones. Maybe Dutch would let me jump off a cliff. Suicide. I strained at the rope on my wrists, but it was tight.

Brother Godleof read the prologue to the Rule of Saint Benedict: "Obsculta, o fili, praecepta magistri, et incline aurem cordis tui." Listen, my son, and turn the ear of your heart to the precepts of your master. Aldred loved the phrase aurem cordis, the ear of the heart. It suggested a way of listening more intense and thoughtful than the norm.

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.

My pope is Benedict.

The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

Hollandaise, I would like to pour over my head and just rub all over myself. Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs.

Elvis is in the kitchen and he's making eggs Benedict!

When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning.

I think generally, Pope Benedict did a good job cleaning up the way the church handled abusive priests but didn't go far enough in how he handled bishops who enabled them.

To a nonstop world, the Rule of Benedict brings balance and simplicity. In the face of a complex world with the twenty-four-hour workdays and constant motion, the Rule asks for a life that deals with a little bit of everything in proper measure: work, prayer, solitude, relationships. The Rule, in other words, is an antidote to excess and to human dwarfism. A proverb says, "Wherever there is excess, something is lacking." The Rule of Benedict mandates a measured life.

My favorite breakfast probably in the whole wide world, real treaty favorite breakfast, is eggs benedict.

I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, within St. Peter's bounds. St. Benedict, whose name I bear as pope, shall be a great example in this for me. He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God.

Said Father Basil: "Saint Benedict takes the image that Scripture uses to speak about Christ himself. 'A bruised reed he will not break, a smoldering wick he will not quench.' Humanity is already fragile. We need to treat it with care, with concern, with delicacy.