Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite. — Milarepa Copy Share Image
To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Even in a remote monastery, you may still be remote from the truth! To find the truth, all you need is a… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Damned mating heat. Lawe is threatening to join a monastery and Rule's threatening to quit. Why don't you two try to show… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
We could go to monasteries. I could show you people who are very wise and they have great willpower, but they're not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
From the beginning, I've stressed that home is something internal, invisible, portable, especially for those of us with roots in many physical… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages.… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“...as our gaze into the luminous vastness deepens and strengthens, and the prayer word grows quiet, and spiritual practices fall away due… — Martin LairdInto the silent land Copy Share Image
Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
