How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job Quotes

“Being Benedictine--a monastic or an oblate--means trying a little harder to show the courtesy of love for one another, to see Christ in the people with whom, we live, work and pray--and to look for Him even in the people with whom we disagree.”
― Benet Tvedten, How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life

“Conversion may mean changing one's mind, overcoming prejudices, looking at things differently. Someone has remarked that conversatio means never having to say, 'But we've always done it this way.”
― Benet Tvedten, How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life

“When we react angrily or negatively about everything that happens to us, we're failing in patience.”
― Benet Tvedten, How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life

“Don't seek God elsewhere. Seek God now, right here, in the routine things that have to be done. Find God in the ordinary circumstances of your life.”
― Benet Tvedten, How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life