“ For you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force. Vesadeva to Siddartha Hermann Hesse
“ You are not here to verify,instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation… T. S. Eliot
“ The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the Mount. It is high time people banded together… Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“ The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always. Rumer Godden
“ My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial and material things. This is not envy, said Mr. K… Rumer Godden
“ The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind. Thaddeus of Vitovnica
“ To leave town, and the struggle and the swim of life, and go and hide yourself in a farmhouse is not life -- it is egoism, laziness; it is a kind of monasticism, but monasticism without action. A man… Anton Chekhov
“ Life never seems to prepare us sufficiently for epiphanies. ... they are not magical intrusions from another world, but reality, naked, and without shame. Monks of New Skete
