A new monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that they are copying copies, and not the original books.
So, the new monk goes to the head monk to ask him about this. He points out that if there was an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies. The head monk says, “We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.”
So, he goes down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original. Hours later, nobody has seen him. So, one of the monks goes downstairs to look for him. He hears sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and finds the old monk leaning over one of the original books crying. He asks what’s wrong.
“The word is celebrate,” says the old monk.
To celebrate or not to celebrate, that is the question...
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Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo
Religion is the opiate of the masses. - Karl Marx
Every religion at its core is exclusive. - Ravi Zacharias
Holy Mackerel: Fish served at Church supper - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. - Edmund Burke
The atheist religion don't believe in the bible. - Archie Bunker
Where God has his church, the Devil will have his chapel. - Spanish Proverb
There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious. - Niccolo Machiavelli
If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? - Benjamin Franklin
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein
Give me a couple of pages of the Bible, and I'll give you a picture. - Cecil B. DeMille
I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are. - Brad Pitt
There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others. - Roger Babson
Today we celebrate the gift of victory over every fall we have ever experienced. - Jeffrey R Holland
Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken
You can always borrow a corkscrew from a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. - Chauncey Depew
To be religious is to have a life that flows with the presence of the extraordinary. - Ann Belford Ulanov
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. - Jonathan Swift
I definitely want my son Brooklyn christened, but I don't know into what religion yet. - David Beckham
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. - Malcolm Muggeridge
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. - Charles Caleb Colton
Let us build a church so great that those who come after us may thing us mad to have attempted it. - Unknown
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. - Kingsley Amis
Going to Church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. - Billy Sunday
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. - Mark Twain
I've always loved yoga because you get to connect to a deep religious truth while stretching your legs. - Katya Zamolodchikova
An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. - Leo Rosten
The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. - Dennis Prager
Since I got to 80, I've started reading the Bible a lot more. It's kind of like cramming for my finals. - Vincent Watson
The world says everything happens randomly, without reason. But the Bible reassures us that God works in all things. - David Jeremiah
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
I keep it, staying at Home
With a Bobolink for a Chorister
And an Orchard for a Dome - Emily Dickinson
The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, 'In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.' - George Washington Carver
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy
I you can make any leading religion of the world look like complete nonsense, you can be sure of only one thing: you haven't understood it. - Wilfred Cantwell Smith
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven - Rick Warren
Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone. - Ravi Zacharias
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression. - Malcolm Muggeridge
Religion is the opiate of the masses. - Karl Marx
Every religion at its core is exclusive. - Ravi Zacharias
Holy Mackerel: Fish served at Church supper - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. - Edmund Burke
The atheist religion don't believe in the bible. - Archie Bunker
Where God has his church, the Devil will have his chapel. - Spanish Proverb
There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious. - Niccolo Machiavelli
If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without it? - Benjamin Franklin
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein
Give me a couple of pages of the Bible, and I'll give you a picture. - Cecil B. DeMille
I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are. - Brad Pitt
There is a world of practical religion in simply being considerate of others. - Roger Babson
Today we celebrate the gift of victory over every fall we have ever experienced. - Jeffrey R Holland
Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken
You can always borrow a corkscrew from a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. - Chauncey Depew
To be religious is to have a life that flows with the presence of the extraordinary. - Ann Belford Ulanov
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. - Jonathan Swift
I definitely want my son Brooklyn christened, but I don't know into what religion yet. - David Beckham
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. - Malcolm Muggeridge
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. - Charles Caleb Colton
Let us build a church so great that those who come after us may thing us mad to have attempted it. - Unknown
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. - Kingsley Amis
Going to Church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. - Billy Sunday
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. - Mark Twain
I've always loved yoga because you get to connect to a deep religious truth while stretching your legs. - Katya Zamolodchikova
An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. - Leo Rosten
The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. - Dennis Prager
Since I got to 80, I've started reading the Bible a lot more. It's kind of like cramming for my finals. - Vincent Watson
The world says everything happens randomly, without reason. But the Bible reassures us that God works in all things. - David Jeremiah
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
I keep it, staying at Home
With a Bobolink for a Chorister
And an Orchard for a Dome - Emily Dickinson
The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, 'In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.' - George Washington Carver
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy
I you can make any leading religion of the world look like complete nonsense, you can be sure of only one thing: you haven't understood it. - Wilfred Cantwell Smith
The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven - Rick Warren
Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone. - Ravi Zacharias
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression. - Malcolm Muggeridge
see also Religious, Stress & Survivor Sections
Friar Thumper
Gambling Chips
Greek Monk
Monk On A Rope
Monk’s Christmas Vow
Monk’s Fish And Chip Stand
Monk’s Story
Silent Monks Singing Hallelujah
Tiny Monks
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