“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.”
Quote by Dennis Okholm
Work
Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants
Browse quotes and source details for this work. more
Author
You May Also Like
Source: The Wolf Road
“The mental mist of ambiguity and the fog of ambivalence hamper human existence.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
Source: The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery
Source: Blindness
Source: Rashomon and Other Stories
“Monsters, show me the monsters: these people out on the street. My people.”
Source: A General Theory of Oblivion
Source: Roses in the Rainbow
Source: Roses in the Rainbow