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Monasticism


Monasticism Books

The Rule of Saint Benedict
The Seven Storey Mountain
The Cloister Walk
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture
John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent
New Seeds of Contemplation
The Practice of the Presence of God
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
In This House of Brede
Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict
The Name of the Rose
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Seeking God by Esther de WaalThe Rule of Saint Benedict by Benedict of NursiaA Life-Giving Way by Esther de WaalRB 1980 by Benedict of NursiaThe Benedictine Handbook by Anthony Marett-Crosby
Benedictine Spirituality
23 books — 11 voters
Siddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Ultimate Human Secrets - The Hidden Power in our Mysterio... by Ramzi NajjarThe You Beyond You by Ramzi NajjarThe Echoes of Enigma by Ramzi NajjarGilead by Marilynne Robinson
Books for the Contemplative Life
448 books — 212 voters

My God and My All by Elizabeth GoudgeBrother Sun, Sister Moon by Katherine PatersonSt. Francis of Assisi by Omer EnglebertFrancis of Assisi by André VauchezSurrounded by Love by Murray Bodo
Saint Francis of Assisi
106 books — 7 voters
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers by Benedicta WardThe Forgotten Desert Mothers by Laura SwanWalking the Bible by Bruce FeilerDesert Fathers and Mothers by Christine Valters PaintnerThe Lives of the Desert Fathers by Norman Russell
Desert Spirituality
49 books — 11 voters

Medieval Monasticism by C.H. LawrenceThe Forest Monks of Sri Lanka by Michael CarrithersGathering Leaves and Lifting Words by Justin Thomas McDanielPseudo-Macarius by George A. Maloney SJBuddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth-Century ... by Anne M. Blackburn
Monasticism
18 books — 5 voters

Quotes Tagged “Monasticism”

Elizabeth P. Fitzgerald
“ It is not he who disparages himself who shows humility (for who will not put up with himself?), but he who maintains the same love for the very man who reproaches him. ”
― Elizabeth P. Fitzgerald, Divine Ascent - Daily Quotes
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Thomas Merton
“ Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. ”
― Thomas Merton, The Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals – A Spiritual Autobiography of Monastic Wisdom and Global Faith
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