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Quietist  n.  (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism.






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"Quietist" Quotes from Famous Books



... fascinating volume of essays has ever appeared in our language ... the humour is of a peculiarly delicate kind—the humour of the Quietist. It must be purchased, or you must borrow it permanently, or forget to return ...
— Beside Still Waters • Arthur Christopher Benson

... itself a new reaction. "The contemplative orders," whether among Catholics or Protestants, do not find the soil and climate of America congenial. And yet there is a mission-field here for the mystic and the quietist; and when the stir-about activity of our generation suffers their calm voices to be heard, there are not a few ...
— A History of American Christianity • Leonard Woolsey Bacon

... house. "Irish Joan of Arc" they call her, leader of men whom men worship at first sight; most exciting of Ireland's mob orators, all proclaim her, a very Pytho whose prophecies stir unrest and tumult! And here next door the Quietist, the man of dreams and visions, to whom all the war of the world is of as little moment as all other unrealities, since here in this world he has begun already the real, the spiritual life. Both ...
— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt



Words linked to "Quietist" :   quietism, religious mystic, mystic



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