Sentence examples for monastic commitment from inspiring English sources

Not for a monastic commitment to the task.

At the end of the day my monastic commitment was looking to be very much like Julie Andrews's in The Sound of Music.

Similarly, Watterson paints the physical truths of such near-monastic commitment: He was in his mid-20s when the strip began, and in his mid-30s when he walked away.

Troiano, 25, shows the same monastic dedication.

Make your final commitment to monastic life by taking your permanent vows.

Luther's new monastic life conformed to the commitment that countless men and women had made through the centuries an existence devoted to an interweaving of daily work and worship.

"He removed a lot of the patriarchal language from the tradition, which had been mainly transmitted to us through the monastic tradition". Known for his commitment to social justice, Aitken helped found the Berkeley-based Buddhist Peace Fellowship.

Whereas most Christian orders of this sort also fulfilled medical or healing commitments, non-Christian monastic orders of this type did not cater to the sick.

Service and selflessness for monks means doing business with a "prayerful attitude," and this translates into a fanatical commitment to serving their monastic customers.

Why is it that other people can only get so far?" Full commitment would mean a full-time monastic existence.

In their autobiographies, both writers detailed their conversions as well as their commitment to individual vocations — Merton's to the monastic life and Day's to the Catholic Worker Movement.