Sentences with phrase «monk said»

Shantideva, an 8th century monk said, «If a problem can be solved why worry, If a problem can't be solved, then what use is it worrying?»

The only way you can not see what monk said as being a straw man argument is if you consider his representation of the atheists position an accurate one.

While the company has a good safety reputation, Monks says, the company's return on capital numbers are manufactured.

Monks says that having an independent chair is important for all companies but especially important for one with the size, scope and power of Exxon.

And every year, Exxon tries to get the proposal knocked off the proxy, Monks says.

Monks says ExxonMobil's executives are paid too much.

St. Mark, the fifth century monk says, «He who wants to cross the spiritual sea is long - suffering, humble, vigilant and self - controlled.»

Not exact matches

Spence, formerly head of sales and marketing for Kashi, said his company adds monk fruit, another zero - calorie natural sweetener to its mix «to boost sweetness without adding aftertaste.»

«Governor Carney redefined the office of the governor of the Bank of Canada,» said Lee, describing the general public persona of previous governors as «monks in the monastery,» speaking in an «econo - geek» language that didn't often resonate with Canadians at large.

Robert A. G. Monks, founder of Lens Governance Advisors, ISS, and RAM Trust, says the environment for asking questions and raising issues at the meetings, however, is inhospitable.

Buddhist monk TN Hahn says «love your enemies» is the greatest phrase ever uttered, the ultimate koan.

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

The Jewish scholar Abraham Heschel, in conversation with the monk Thomas Merton, said that the first commandment, â $ œYou shall have no other gods before meâ $, is first because it is the root of all sin (Merton, A VOW OF CONVERSATION: JOURNALS 1964 - 1965).

I do not need a priest, or an imam, or a monk or a shaman to tell me what God is saying and surely God needs no middleman to hear me.

Mulgrew said when a child dies it hits the monks particularly hard.

He said that since the play was written by monks in a seventeenth - century monastery, it was inconceivable that the authors could have harbored anti-Semitic feelings, and he pointed out that the text has not been revised since 1860.

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.»

In later life Martin Luther said that if ever a monk could go to heaven by his monkery, he would have been there twenty five years ago.

(c) 5:82 [and] thou wilt surely find that, of all people, they who say, «Behold, we are Christians,» come closest to feeling affection for those who believe [in this divine writ]: this is so because there are priests and monks among them, and because these are not given to arrogance.

a retired franciscan monk in USA said recently that children offered themselves to the clergy.CNN did the story on it.

Simon said in the course of their centuries - old tradition on the mountain, the monks viewed it as just a speed bump.

St. Seraphim, a monk, has said that «if you aquire the spirit of peace, thousands around you will be saved.»

Monks have spent decades there without spending a day off the island,» he said.

In «Jesus of Nazareth - The Infancy Narratives,» the pope says the Christian calendar is actually based on a blunder by a 6th century monk, who Benedict says was several years off in his calculation of Jesus» birth date.

This isn't about to get to heaven, nor do any of those say that because they are a monk they will go to heaven.

Archdeacon Militz of Kromeriz and an ascetic monk named Jean de Roquetaillade both said it would be around 1365CE.

«He does not speak to me,» the monk answered, «because he has already said everything, through the Gospel and through the works of the Holy Fathers, of the saints.»

The monk hesitated, thinking the matter over, at which point Rinzai released him, saying, «The true person of no status, what a dried - up manure - stick he is,» and then returned to his chamber.

«Needless to say, when the next elections came around, the ballot box was once again waiting for the monks on the table of the monastery refectory.»

Rinzai came down from his seat, took hold of the monk, and said to him, «Speak!

There is a moving story of some Sufis who approached some Christian monks in Algeria — monks who later to be massacred — saying that they wanted to meet in prayer and silence.

Yet one can not help remembering that when Martin Luther walked into the imperial council hall of Charles V at Worms to meet his enemies, a famous general tapped him on the shoulder and said, «My poor monk!

«When I was a monk,» he says, «I thought that I was utterly cast away, if at any time I felt the lust of the flesh: that is to say, if I felt any evil motion, fleshly lust, wrath, hatred, or envy against any brother.

About these monks it is said that they were people of great faith, well versed in the Scriptures, large portions of which they knew by heart, fervent in prayer, gentle and humble in manner, full of the love of God on the one hand, and love to their neighbour and all humankind on the other.

St. Thomas More once said that what the world needed most was more houses for the poor and more real monks.

However irreproachably I lived as a monk, I felt myself in the presence of God to be a sinner with a most unquiet conscience... I did not love, indeed I hated this just God... I raged with a fierce and most agitated conscience and yet I continued to knock away at Paul in this place, thirsting ardently to know what he really meant... At last I began to understand the justice of God as that by which the just man lives by the gift of God, that is to say by faith... At this I felt myself to have been born again and to have entered through open gates into paradise itself.6

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

One of the dead Wednesday was a 15 - year - old monk, who set himself alight with two other monks in a majority Tibetan region of Sichuan Province, said the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.

As a monk, Luther had said, «I did not love, yes, I hated the righteous God.»

I read an interview with a Romanian monk, now living in America, in which he said that Orthodoxy would need to adapt to America, and in particular accommodate the characteristic desire to explore things intellectually.

In his travels he stopped by the famed Vatopaidi Monastery and was amazed to discover the financial slight of hand of Fathers Arsenios and Ephraim, two monks who he says displayed all the cunning of Enron's Jeff Skilling and Kenneth Lay.

Like I've said before, I have received significant spiritual direction on an ongoing basis from RC nuns and priests and monks.

These specific bones were found near a 12th century monk cemetary, if said bones in questions are older and dated to around when the king lived, it's a good bet it's probably the king.

In a fragment from The Possessed that did not appear in the final draft, but which has been published recently under the title Stavrogin's Confession, the monk Tikhon says: «Complete atheism is more respectable than worldly indifference....

In «Jesus of Nazareth — The Infancy Narratives,» the pope says the Christian calendar is actually based on a blunder by a 6th century monk, who Benedict says was several years off in his calculation of Jesus» birth date.

At a wedding or a funeral the religious leaders of Islam were asked to say prayers and recite passages, just as the Buddhist monks did in the temples.

Brendan Freeman, a Trappist monk from Iowa, says that the Beatitudes «draw our hearts out of themselves into a new way of understanding our lives... they are deliberately incomplete.

Francis's meeting with Buddhist monk Sitagu Sayadaw was undertaken «in an effort to encourage peace and fraternal coexistence as the only way ahead», Mr Burke said.

«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.

Having spent some time in a Buddhist monastery, I feel qualified to say that any self - respecting Buddhist monk would die laughing over the use of Karma in this book.