Monk Habits for Everyday People Quotes

“We live in a culture that consumes to the extent that avarice is no longer one of Gregory the Great's deadly sins but one of Donald Trump's virtues.”
― Dennis Okholm, Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants

“Pride makes us unapproachable. (...) But if a person possesses a realistic assessment of who she is, whence she's come, and where her place is in the scheme of things, she has a good chance of accepting others for who they are, whence they've come, and what their place is in the scheme of things-- without necessarily approving of all that is included in the assessment.”
― Dennis Okholm, Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants

“As Father Guy, one of the first monks I met, put it, "Samuel said, "Speak, Lord, for thy servant is listening'; we more often say, 'Listen, Lord, for thy servant is speaking.”
― Dennis Okholm, Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants

“Listening. It's not something for which Protestants are usually well known. In our activist piety we have tended toward prophetic pronouncements rather than quiet listening. As Father Guy, one of the first monks I met, put it, "Samuel said, "Speak, Lord, for thy servant is listening'; we more often say, 'Listen, Lord, for thy servant is speaking.”
― Dennis Okholm, Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants