Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns…

A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

— Victor Hugo

His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living…

— Victor Hugo

“I’m never going to run out of steam, am I? I’ll be the Energizer bunny of militant nuns.”

— Terry Pratchett

“He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.”

— Kelsey Brickl

The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between…

— Bharati Mukherjee

It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

— Wendelin Van Draanen

It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean nun was…

— Ann Dowd

“She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.”

— Bonnie Greer

“It is hardly lonely in a nunnery, son, with other women. And God is there." Morgause said, "I would rather dwell in a hermitage…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests.

— Anthea Butler

“Girls need to know they can break the rules. If the nuns had told me that, I could have saved twenty years.”

— Gloria Steinem

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

— Harvey Milk

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos,…

— Frank McCourt

Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

— Garrison Keillor

If you go to any nunnery and ask them what the main obstacle is, they'll always say low self-esteem and lack of confidence. It…

— Tenzin Palmo