It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways. — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image
Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. — John Lydon 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
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.'… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I don't speak during the day. I warm up physically and, obviously, vocally, constantly. And I try to live like a nun. — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
In high school I was voted the girl most likely to become a nun. That may not be impressive to you, but… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught;… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It didn't seem to have relevance, except in Central America or South America, countries where the church was connected to the fight… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
By the time I went to the Catholic University of America, which was the time the priests were all leaving with the… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Nuns? They'd take one look at Barrons and decide the devil himself had come knockng. He not only looked dangerous, he emanated… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I think He intends to try you like gold in the crucible, so as to number you amongst His most faithful servants.… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
But the blessed Bishop of Geneva taught his nuns another kind of prayer, which even the sick can make: to remain peacefully… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I went to the Vatican once - it was a bad idea. I went into the bookshop and I bought hideous, pious… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“The problem isn't that I'm uncomfortable with it, the problem is that I want it!" I yelled. It was official; I'd lost… — Chelsea M. Cameron Copy Share Image
St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Sister, why do you do that?" "Do what?" "Cage the animals at night?" "Well..." She looked up and out through the barred… — Jennings Michael Burch Copy Share Image
I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The rabbis paled. I’d managed to terrify holy men. Maybe I could beat up a nun for an encore. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Commissioner Harris at the far end stared along the mad pathway. This was his first child and it had already become a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
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