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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
Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
New Seeds of Contemplation
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict
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
Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus
The Name of the Rose
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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers by Benedicta WardThe Forgotten Desert Mothers by Laura SwanPoems for a Peaceful Soul by James-Patrick GeocarisWalking the Bible by Bruce FeilerDesert Fathers and Mothers by Christine Valters Paintner
Desert Spirituality
50 books — 15 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
107 books — 8 voters

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
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

Siddhartha by Hermann HesseWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherThe Ultimate Human Secrets - The Hidden Power in our Mysterio... by Ramzi NajjarThe Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden
Books for the Contemplative Life
465 books — 247 voters

Quotes Tagged “Monasticism”

Elizabeth P. Fitzgerald
“ We believe that true freedom means not sinning, in order to love God and one's neighbour with our whole heart and our whole strength. True freedom means constant dwelling in God. ...more ”
― Elizabeth P. Fitzgerald, A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes
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Elizabeth P. Fitzgerald
“ If you are forgetful of the Lord, you will not pray, and without prayer the soul will not dwell in the love of God, for the grace of the Holy Spirit comes through prayer. ”
― Elizabeth P. Fitzgerald, A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes
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