Sentences with phrase «made monks»

It was the loyalty to him which was the chief source of monasticism and of the contagious conviction which made monks for centuries the chief active agents in the spread of the faith.

ism had to be combated ever and again by the great reformers who sought to make the monk a servant of mankind rather than a seeker after his own holiness.

Lankato is a company that makes a monk fruit / erythritol mix which also works well for us.

Your six - year - old chatterbox could make a monk revoke his vow of silence just to say «Shhhhhh!!!»

In one of my articles captioned «THE HOOD DOES NOT MAKE THE MONK JUST AS THE WIG DOES NOT MAKE THE LAWYER», I stated that not everybody who had gone to school succeeded in acquiring education.

The hood doesn't make the monk.

She's walked a remote portion of the Great Wall of China; overnighted in the world's biggest desert, the Empty Quarter; and toasted new vintages with wine - making monks on a Riviera island.

For example, the French phrase «l'habit ne fait pas le moine» becomes «the clothing doesn't make the monk» in English.

BTW the expression exists in English, «the cowl does not make the monk» — a direct translation of «l'habit ne fait pas le moine».

Does the cowl make the monk?

Not exact matches

Pacioli, a Franciscan monk who published the first balance sheet in 1494, understood the power of data to transform the way companies make decisions.

He researched the traditional monk money - making methods, such as growing and selling shiitake mushrooms or cucumbers.

«[A] most every kind of public policy decision [today is] made as a matter of a cost - benefit ratio,» governance advocate Robert A. G. Monks, explained in a 2008 interview published on the website Social Funds.

Does this awareness prompt these monks to follow any rituals, say any prayers, or make any sacrifices?

Another fact is that her casket was made and donated by some Trappist monks.

Mindfulness and similar forms of meditation were traditionally the domain of ordained monks and nuns, not the average people who make up the great bulk of Buddhist societies.

Even the Catholics i believe would allow monks to take a step back occassionally... And anyone find it iterested that they made him sign a statement of faith?

Or, as an old monk of Mount Athos once said to me, summing up what he believed he had learned from more than forty years of meditation on the gospels, «He is not what we would make him.»

Huffington Post: «Beyond the Robe»: New Generation of Buddhist Monks Embraces Science Recently, the Dalai Lama addressed a luncheon gathering at my home in Boston and announced a decision by the leaders of the monasteries to make the study of Western science part of the core curriculum required of all monastic scholars in the Gelug tradition.

I am sure these Monks came out of Women «You know what» so Y hate them so much... If God made women then she should and can do anything and can go anywhere... What a sad life these gays have... LOL

They added that the monks do not make it for profit but just to make a living and any profit is given to charity.

The idea of monks making money and being self - sufficient dates back to the 6th century, and across the U.S. you'll find them in the business of coffee, caskets, fruit cakes, honey, bonsai and more.

The words from Psalm 118 «Suscipe me, Domine» (receive me, Lord) are sung by those making profession as a monk or nun, and the teaching offered here on the nature of vows speaks to anyone who sees their human journey in terms of vocation.

Along the way I became a Catholic and then an oblate of the community — a lay member who promises to, as much as possible, make use of the same framework for life that the monks do: the Rule, frequent Eucharist, daily devotions, the incorporation of silence.

And the humble Basil, who upon being tonsured a monk and immediately made a bishop, asks his Metropolitan how he could follow the necessary obediences of a novice when already a hierarch.

Even if, by some remote chance, he did exist, his words were never recorded and left for posterity.Those words you are devoted to are made up by scribes and monks, with an agenda.

As a result the church was forced to make a rule that the people should go to churches on Sunday and they should visit the monks only on weekdays.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

Max Weber once said that the Reformation made every man a monk and the whole world a monastery.

Dr. Podles wants to make much of the warrior motif in the era of «heroic Christianity,» and he claims that the Benedictine monks were properly manly because they saw the spiritual life as a struggle with Satan while twelfth - century Cistercians and women saw it as an erotic submission to Jesus the bridegroom.

What makes you think that a monk who wrote the bible 1000 years ago (when most people were illiterate) knows anything more about a man named Jesus who lived 2000 years than we do today, when we all can't even agree on where President Obama came from today?

I too at one time used to only associate eastern meditation practices with peaceful Buddhist monks but my experiences made me aware that some persons who engage in eastern meditation practices (which tend to be deep and intense) also experience adverse effects just as I did.

Here we overhear the Abbot of Pluscarden speaking to his monks, but the texts have been edited to make them accessible to the general reader, and only occasionally do we find passages of specific concern to the community at Pluscarden.

Thousands of nuns and monks were made homeless.

«Encourage in every way you can a holy liberty of spirit among your monks and do everything you can to make them love their state of life more deeply than anything in the world.

But becoming a monk gave him what he saw as a golden opportunity: he could make himself more attractive to God and so — hopefully — earn his love.

There have been changes in the last thirty years — clocks have made their appearance, there is more heat and the monks concelebrate.

For that, I encourage the pastors and the monks to offer to the faithful a real education in liturgy, for a more profitable participation, which is before all a union with Christ, who offeredHimself in sacrifice on the Cross, made present in the eucharistic act.»

The only way to escape is to be a monk in a monastery only if you don't speak to one another to make it work.

bear in mind that in the past some remarkable scientific breakthroughs were made by monks and priests who were quite brilliant scholars.

It just strikes me as odd that monks, who are supposed to be prime examples of the faith, are showing a political stance and going against the teaching by making such a request and performing such an action.

«We have made so many appeals (to stop self - immolations), but they are still doing it,» said Sangay, the political successor of the Dalai Lama, as the number of self - immolations by monks, nuns and others swelled to 68 since March 2011.

Jesus referred him to the classes of those who customarily didn't want to marry or couldn't marry - monks (for the sake of the kingdom of heaven - men damaged by the practice of making eunuchs for use as governmental servants (Egypt generally) and the class of people who «from their mother's womb «are not suited (for women?)

«And this is why our holy founder wished the superiors to test their monks somewhat as God tested Abraham, and to put their poverty and their obedience to trial, that by this means they may become acquainted with the degree of their virtue, and gain a chance to make ever farther progress in perfection,... making the one move out of his room when he finds it comfortable and is attached to it; taking away from another a book of which he is fond; or obliging a third to exchange his garment for a worse one.

I refer to the chastity, obedience, and poverty which the monk vows to observe; and upon the heads of obedience and poverty I will make a few remarks.

Jesus referred him to the classes of people whp either couldn't or didn't want to be married — those who were monks for the sake of the kingdom of heaven - those who were damaged by others such as eunuchs made to serve the governmemt in Egypt mainly — and those who were eunuchs, had no incliination (to woman?)

Martin Luther became a monk after making an oath to God in the middle of a lightning storm.

We can glean much, but not all - certainly not after all the re-writes and self - serving «translations» of ancient texts, real and forged, that have been made by very fallible, very human Popes and monks over the centuries.

Many of us can think of monks and nuns (as well as of others who are not vocationally celibate but nonetheless actually so) who have been enabled to live fully and healthily, rechanneling their sexual drive toward other modes of expression that can make them loving, concerned, caring, and deeply devoted and committed people.

This is not an explicitly genital mode of contact, but it is a way of sexual living that makes its appeal to those who by religious vocation (e.g., monks and nuns) or a call to a particular kind of human service (e.g., Dag Hammarskjold) or some necessity (e.g., those who can not find a life partner or a homosexual comradeship available) are forced to live without a genital way of being sexual.