NOUN
- a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God
How To Use quietism In A Sentence
- As a result, the next generation was to tend towards political quietism and, worst of all, a crass materialism.
- But progress, not quietism, is the principle which governs humanity and it is favoured by events of most different nature. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- In all the dispute on what is called quietism, there has been nothing good but the old tale revived of the honest woman who brought a torch to burn paradise, and a cruse of water to extinguish the fire of hell, that God should no longer be served either through hope or fear. A Philosophical Dictionary
- Critics of Keswick spirituality alleged that through its emphasis on the inner life, it taught a quietism that discouraged practical expressions of Christian living and a mysticism that was foreign to evangelical theology.
- Staying quiet in the face of political strife is the reigning philosophy in Najaf and is known as quietism, or taquia, in Arabic. The Seattle Times
- Erano infatti: una fede in lui che lo mise in guardia dalle sottigliezze del quietismo e del gallicanesimo; una confidenza in Dio che gli rendeva familiare come palpito l'elevarsi continuato del suo spirito in Gesù, con continuate giaculatorie come dardi d'amore; una fortezza imperterrita, in circostanze angosciose, che gli fece dire col pugno serrato sul petto: color di porpora, color di sangue: e questo vi dica, che per la giustizia e per il buon diritto di Dio io sono disposto a sacrificare la mia vita; una carità fiammeggiante di padre e di pastore estesa alle forme molteplici e più varie della dedizione di un gran cuore di uomo insigne e di sacerdote venerabile. Archive 2009-03-01
- There's quietism on the one hand and militancy on the other and much depends on the conditions that people find themselves in, in any one point in time.
- Faced with the classic choice of writing or living, he finds himself capable of neither, and ponders a retreat into literary quietism.
- There can be no quietism, no reactionary traditionalism, no retreat from the world.
- As a result, the next generation was to tend towards political quietism and, worst of all, a crass materialism.