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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)
John Climacus: The Ladder of Divine Ascent
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture
New Seeds of Contemplation
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict
The Practice of the Presence of God
In This House of Brede
The Life of St. Anthony
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
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
25 books — 12 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

Siddhartha by Hermann HesseWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauThe You Beyond You by Ramzi NajjarThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherBetween Death & Life by Dolores Cannon
Books for the Contemplative Life
461 books — 229 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

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
51 books — 16 voters

Quotes Tagged “Monasticism”

Elizabeth P. Fitzgerald
“ [T]o the man who beseeches the Lord all things are given, not because we are worthy but because the Lord is merciful and loves us. ”
― 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
“ Prayer comes with praying, as the Scriptures say; but prayer which is only a habit, prayer without contrition for our sins, is not pleasing to the Lord. ”
― Elizabeth P. Fitzgerald, A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes
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