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Book cover for The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
Benedict’s Rule is a detailed set of instructions for how to organize and govern a monastic community, in which monks (and separately, nuns) live together in poverty and chastity.2 That is common to all monastic living, but Benedict’s Rule ...more
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Nelson DeMille
“Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.”
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Michael Crichton
“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
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“In God we trust; all others bring data.”
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“When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death: I pass indeed into their world.”
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“For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.”
Cervantes, Don Quixote

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