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“In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.”

Trying Matter Easy Poverty Conversation Approach Intellectual Labor Catholic Charity Workers Manuals Things That Matter Philip Manual Labor St Benedict

Author:Peter Maurin

“Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.”

Golf Forty Brethren St Benedict

Book:The pleasures of the game: the theory free guide to golf

Source: The pleasures of the game: the theory free guide to golf

“Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.”

Two Philosophy Body Hardest Fixed Temperament Skulls Parts Of The Body St Benedict

Book:Disgrâce

Source: Disgrâce

“The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way He hath shown me in truth for me and those who will believe and imitate me. And therefore I would that ye name not to me any rule, neither of St. Augustine, nor St. Benedict, nor of Bernard, nor any way or form of living, but that which was mercifully shown and given me by the Lord.”

Way Life Believe Form Names Belief Given Lord Humility Simplicity Augustine St Benedict

Author:Francis of Assisi

“We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.”

Different Waiting Godot St Benedict

Book:After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

Source: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory