| The community was quietist, contemplative in spirit, and rather donnish, with Augustine as acknowledged leader providing answers to questions raised in the discussions. |
| The Labadists were followers of Jean de Labadie, founder of a Utopian quietist sect in the Netherlands, who emigrated to what is now Cecil County, Maryland. |
| He is not an advocate of clerical activism, preferring the traditional quietist approach to politics. |
| But despite his reputation as a quietist, he is no mere academic. |
| The Daniel and Enoch apocalyptics, as also to some extent the members of Qumran, belonged to the quietist or peacefully-confident awaiters of the basileia. |
| A quietist, he rejected involvement in politics and rejected Khomeini's theory of clerical rule. |
