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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Religion: a great perhaps. - Francois Rabelais
Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo
There is no substitute for the Bible. - Henry Halley
Cantaloupe: Got to get married in Church - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning. - Viktor Frankl
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. - Edmund Burke
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. - Naguib Mahfouz
Of all the bad men, religious bad men are the worst. - C S Lewis
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. - Louis Nizer
What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate. - Ravi Zacharias
There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious. - Niccolo Machiavelli
A rigorous religion can be conceived and nurtured in ignorance. - Ravi Zacharias
Don't they get afraid, then?
They have a religion for that. - Ray Bradbury
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook. - Francis James Grimke
I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are. - Brad Pitt
Today we celebrate the gift of victory over every fall we have ever experienced. - Jeffrey R Holland
You can always borrow a corkscrew from a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. - Chauncey Depew
I'm a Catholic deer hunter. I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. - Paul Ryan
The first time I sang in the Church choir, two hundred people changed their religion. - Fred Allen
I definitely want my son Brooklyn christened, but I don't know into what religion yet. - David Beckham
Let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. - Liam Neeson
When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person. - Ravi Zacharias
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls in to line. - Lucille Ball
Going to Church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. - Billy Sunday
If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity. - C S Lewis
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. - Mark Twain
Family, religion, friendship... these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Mr. Burns
An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. - Leo Rosten
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are the same people. - G K Chesterton
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing. - George Eliot
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in Church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. - Fred Allen
Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers. - Colleen Hoover
I find that the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions. - Samuel Butler
The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion. - Richard Engel
Prayer and the Bible became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength. - Rosa Parks
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
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. - Joseph Addison
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
Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo
There is no substitute for the Bible. - Henry Halley
Cantaloupe: Got to get married in Church - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Religion is the search for ultimate meaning. - Viktor Frankl
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. - Edmund Burke
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. - Naguib Mahfouz
Of all the bad men, religious bad men are the worst. - C S Lewis
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. - Louis Nizer
What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate. - Ravi Zacharias
There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious. - Niccolo Machiavelli
A rigorous religion can be conceived and nurtured in ignorance. - Ravi Zacharias
Don't they get afraid, then?
They have a religion for that. - Ray Bradbury
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook. - Francis James Grimke
I see religion more as a truck stop on your way to figuring out who you are. - Brad Pitt
Today we celebrate the gift of victory over every fall we have ever experienced. - Jeffrey R Holland
You can always borrow a corkscrew from a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. - Chauncey Depew
I'm a Catholic deer hunter. I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. - Paul Ryan
The first time I sang in the Church choir, two hundred people changed their religion. - Fred Allen
I definitely want my son Brooklyn christened, but I don't know into what religion yet. - David Beckham
Let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. - Liam Neeson
When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person. - Ravi Zacharias
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls in to line. - Lucille Ball
Going to Church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. - Billy Sunday
If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity. - C S Lewis
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. - Mark Twain
Family, religion, friendship... these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Mr. Burns
An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. - Leo Rosten
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are the same people. - G K Chesterton
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing. - George Eliot
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in Church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. - Fred Allen
Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers. - Colleen Hoover
I find that the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions. - Samuel Butler
The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the religion. - Richard Engel
Prayer and the Bible became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength. - Rosa Parks
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
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. - Joseph Addison
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
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