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Top 20 Benedict of Nursia Quotes (2025 Update)

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.”

1. “Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.”

— Benedict of Nursia

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Benedict of Nursia Quote: “Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.”

2. “Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “Idleness is an enemy of the soul.”

3. “Idleness is an enemy of the soul.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.”

4. “Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.”

5. “And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.”

6. “Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.”

7. “The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “Run while you have the light of life!”

8. “Run while you have the light of life!”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.”

9. “Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all.”

10. “The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.”

11. “There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “The sleepy like to make excuses.”

12. “The sleepy like to make excuses.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.”

13. “He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.”

14. “He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “It is time now for us to rise from sleep.”

15. “It is time now for us to rise from sleep.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “Listen carefully, my child, to your master’s precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father’s advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.”

16. “Listen carefully, my child, to your master’s precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father’s advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “Almighty God, give me wisdom to perceive You, intelligence to understand You, diligence to seek You, patience to wait for You, eyes to behold You, a heart to meditate upon You and life to proclaim You, through the power of the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.”

17. “Almighty God, give me wisdom to perceive You, intelligence to understand You, diligence to seek You, patience to wait for You, eyes to behold You, a heart to meditate upon You and life to proclaim You, through the power of the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!”

18. “The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “He who has ears for hearing, let him listen.”

19. “He who has ears for hearing, let him listen.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one’s own doing, and to impute it on one’s self.”

20. “To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one’s own doing, and to impute it on one’s self.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “Before all, and above all, attention shall be paid to the care of the sick, so that they shall be served as if they were Christ Himself.”

21. “Before all, and above all, attention shall be paid to the care of the sick, so that they shall be served as if they were Christ Himself.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.”

22. “Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “Let us take part in the psalmody in such a way that our mind may be in harmony with our voice.”

23. “Let us take part in the psalmody in such a way that our mind may be in harmony with our voice.”

— Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia Quote: “It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.”

24. “It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.”

— Benedict of Nursia

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