quietism

1 And of all great religions it is the least political, for the practice of asceticism and quietism, of monastic seclusion from the working world, is necessarily adverse to any active connection with mundane affairs.

2 In a general way, it may be asserted that the same doctrines which in India led to the inculcation of indifference and quietism, led to Stoic activity in Greece and Italy.

3 It is sound and fury in the cause of preserving the culture of quietism, passivity.

4 Religion, in its true meaning, an aspiration towards the divine, still exists among the Brahmins, but in a state of such quietism that it is sterile; it is lost to the whites.

5 For the time being, however, throughout Europe generally and in certain sections of America, quietism found adherents.

6 In the heights of his illuminated quietism all the personality of the devotee was lost in the abyss of Divinity.

7 Into his connection with Madame Guyon, the celebrated apostle of quietism, and his consequent quarrel with Bossuet, there is no need to enter further.

8 Prayer is often seen as quietism, a plea to be rescued instead of a call to action.

9 Leeds Anglicanism was of High Church persuasion with many of its churches including All Souls' adopting Anglo-Catholic forms of worship quite different from the quietism of the Society of Friends.

10 Nor was he born to chronicle the small beer of everyday life in that spirit of contemplative quietism which is bred out of abundant leisure and retirement.

11 Ames represented a certain "quietism" that was little represented – indeed, it was paradoxical to have him as the narrator of a bestselling novel, as he would flinch from advertising his faith.

12 What was an ultimately unsuccessful effort to draw the monkhood out of its political quietism swiftly mutated into an anti-progressive force, and continued to endure as a dark cloud over the region’s politics in subsequent decades.

13 Abbásid age, and particularly the dry formalism of Moslem theology could not fail to provoke counter-movements towards quietism, spiritual authority, and emotional faith.

14 Yield yourselves to Him, not with a passive acquiescence, a sentimental quietism, but with the earnest, energetic direction of all your faculties to this one end.

15 If there's a problem with Foley's book, it's that it might be seen as an apologia for political quietism.

16 Cobbett, like many others, took the received Political Economy for a doctrine of political quietism.

17 Moral relativism doesn't imply moral quietism.

18 The best quietism can, at most, be only a halt in the course, a truce in the strife, or rather another manner of combating.

19 To their children, this position seems like unforgivable quietism and complacency.

20 Under the equinoctial line he has no disposition for exertion, his physiological relations with the climate making quietism most agreeable to him.

1 寂静主义

quietistic quietist

2 平和

even gentle bland suave heartsease

3 宁静

calm serene easygoing composed stilly reposeful ataractic ataraxic soft peace quiet tranquillity smooth sober in quiet

4 安宁

calm peaceful restful rest peace quiet well-being equilibrium easiness ataraxia

5 淡泊

stoical detachment

6 无为主义

donothing

7 不活动

silent inactive dormant immobile recumbent quiescent deedless sleep sleeping inaction passivity quiescence

8 清静无为

quietist

9 平静

surgeless even still smooth quiet calm peaceful tranquil serene lucid restful undisturbed sedate peaceable halcyon unperturbed windless equable reposed reposeful breezeless unvexed quietly peacefully calmly blandly equably tranquilly pacifically restfully undisturbedly balance temper poise equilibrium serenity tranquility repose calmness quietness subsidence equanimity peacefulness lucidity evenness blandness quietude placidity placidness equability ataraxy rest mitigate recompose tranquilize smoothen

10 静止

still dead standing silent inactive stationary stagnant sedentary motionless immobile immovable unmoving stabile moveless actionless rest sleep sleeping repose stasis dormancy quiescence anchor slumber stagnate

11 平安

shalom rest quiet in peace in quiet

12 安之若素

be in control be in control of