Sentences with phrase «not monks»

Justice Sopinka famously said (in 1989) that judges are not monks (although he should also have said nuns) and can have a role to play in their communities.

It will be necessary for folks to accommodate themselves to the fact that teachers, not primarily motivated by dollar issues, are also not monks sworn to eternal poverty.

We're not monks.

Dominicans are friars, not monks, and there exists a world of spiritual differences between the two.

(In Eastern Christianity, parish priests, but not monks, may marry.)

Lutz isn't a monk who has taken vows of poverty, nor is he chastising the wealthy for being wealthy.

His Holiness reportedly said that he would have been an engineer if he were not a monk and not the 14th Dalai Lama.

And he's a friar, not a monk.

I'm not a monk, and not an absolutist.

They say that the first step is the hardest in a 10 miles long journey... Well, we aren't monks, but we can confirm that many singles struggle to bring themselves to actually sign up to a dating site.

Not exact matches

«The problem with a sole practitioner is sometimes they turn into monks and aren't out in society.

«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.

While the Dalai Lama, a Buddhist monk, does not often speak about business explicitly, choosing instead to focus on teachings about compassion and peace, he sounded a lot like an aging CEO preparing to pass the reins.

It's not an unreasonable question, Bob Monks, founder of LENS Investment Management, told me.

That's why, Monks argues, shareholders have a role to play that regulators can not because they, like the company itself, «transcend global and political boundaries.»

Both Monks and Whitehead agree that fiduciaries, who are obligated to protect the invested dollars entrusted to them, should not invest in these kinds of stocks due to the risks involved.

When he asked attendees to raise their hands if they have a smart phone, 98 % did, only the few dozen brown - clad monks did not follow suit.

In other words, it's time you open your inner heart chakra to the possibility that yoga and meditation aren't just for hipsters and monks.

I believe with all my heart that the monks who burned themselves did not aim at the fatality of their oppressors but only at a change in their policy.

The monks» enemies are not of flesh and bone - their enemies are things like intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred, and discrimination which can be found in the heart of men.

I haven't been to a lot of these, but if I go to another hundred, I don't expect to hear a discussion like the one the monks had.

But an aging and shrinking order of Cistercian monks have accomplished what great men and cities could not: the reconstruction of Santa Maria de Óvila's most architecturally significant building, a 12th - century Gothic chapter house.

Buddhists in history are pacifistic and will not fight to attain their goals (See Vietnam war and burning monks).

The second monk was silent and obviously angry for a long time as they walked and finally burst out «You know we are not allowed to come in contact with women, what were you thinking?»

The Crown Prosecution Service is appealing a decision by a Kosovan court not to extradite a British monk accused of child abuse.

There is even a monk of sorts wandering the grounds, offering consolation to those awaiting what they hope is not the end.

The Crown Prosecution Service is appealing a decision by a Kosovan court not to extradite a British monk... More

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.

Monks and nuns don't get busted and they live concecrated lives as well.

I have not forgotten the day when, as a graduate student at Princeton, I sat in Firestone Library talking with a fellow graduate student who happened to be a Benedictine monk.

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.

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.

Many monks eat in their meals in silence... so don't go expecting to chat it up during lunchtime!)

Even for the monks and nuns, meditation was often a peripheral activity, with the greatest honors reserved for scholars and ritual specialists, not meditation masters.

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.»

They're not entirely surprised their mother is acting like a monk, but not entirely comfortable with it either...»

It is very obvious that these monks are not following Jesus example nor his words.

The monks in Mt. Athos pray not only for the salvation of their soul, but for the salvation of the world — spiritually and physically.

Just because woman haven't been THERE for a thousand years doesn't mean that individuals can't leave to recruit new monks.

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

In short, the monks would have been tempted to lose sight of the final goal of their endeavors — not the mere accumulation of facts or the ability to impress others but rather that deep, structured understanding which is ultimately synonymous with the Logos, the creative Word.

As early as 1790 a Venetian monk, Gianmaria Ortis, declared that the human population could not continue to grow indefinitely.

The Augustinian monk Martin Luther definitely did not hold it:

Persuaded by their tears, Mary not only gained their pardon from her Son, but also forced two demons to impersonate the monk and the woman and take their place in prison.

But don't assume monks who live in monasteries and dedicate their lives to prayer aren't feeling pressure in this economy.

(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.

to become a monk, you have to go through a process... and the other monks will not let you pursue it for selfish reasons (avoiding the world).

We had one fundamentalist girl, I'll call her Laurie, who was just fascinated by the place and didn't really know how to relate with the monks.

Except, of course, for the very most religious people (Jesus, John the Baptist, most of the disciples, the pope, priests, nuns, monks, etc.) and then they are praised for «not multiplying».

In any case, these isolated monks certainly don't seem to doing any damage (unlike most of us), and they're preserving a pretty unique tradition.