Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
If there are 1,500 people in a theater and they're all there to see you, there are no other guys. You're the… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years.… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Silence will illuminate you in God... and deliver you from phantoms of ignorance. Silence will unite you to God.... In the beginning… — Isaac of Nenevah Copy Share Image
“[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
