The most consistent quietists were perhaps those who brought the doctrine of quietism into most discredit, such as the hesychasts of Mount Athos.
The errors of the quietists certainly receive some countenance from parts of his writings, but they are neutralised by maxims of a different tendency, borrowed eclectically from other sources.
Vocal prayer cannot be (as the extreme quietists pretend) useless to contemplative souls; "for Christ has taught us a vocal prayer.
But it could not be denied that the quietists of the next century might find much support for their controverted doctrines in both writers.
This text was also appealed to by the Quietists of the post-Reformation period.
Our French Quietists by their lucid analysis, their rich and fertile developments, made known, for the first time, what had scarcely been dreamed of in the obscure form which Quietism had prudently preserved in other countries.
Whether Quietists or Anti-quietists, they do not differ much in their method of enveloping the soul, and lulling the will to sleep.
The Quietists must have been at that time very strong in Rome, since one of them, Cardinal Bona, was on the point of being made pope.
Later, when its motion ceased, the paralysed age learned from the Quietists that immobility is perfection itself.
Perhaps quietists have been most successful in gaining this sort of feeling, but the quietists are not the people who have passed all their lives rubbing and fighting against the world.
There were many present who had joined the ranks of the Quietists more from a weariness of the existing order than from sincere devotion.
When Molinos and other quietists praise the Interior Silence in which the soul neither speaks nor desires nor thinks, they suggest that the suspension of all mental activity is good in itself.
Beaumarchais sent arms to the Americans Educate his children as quietists in matters of religion It is an ill wind that blows no one any good Judge of men by the company they keep Les culottes--what do you call them?
Since acts of hope are obligatory for all adults in this life, the Quietists were in error when they defended disinterested love and absolute holy indifference (Denzinger, 1221 ff.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quietists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
