1918 Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“the monastery is not a place to hide from problems; it is a place to face them, whether they are personal sin, human brokenness,…

— Carrie Gress

“From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs…

— Victor Hugo

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most…

— Frederick Lenz

“The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort…

— Ken Follett

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a…

— Shane Claiborne

“Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion”

— william blake

“People point less often to these monks, and even pass them over in silence, and how surprised they would be if I were to…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In all poor countries, where general culture is not very advanced, monasteries give to the masses the silence, poetry and music, for which their…

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

“if monasteries accepted the irreligious and permitted abstention from prayer, I'd become a monk.”

— Henri Troyat

“Monasticism is really based on the idea that if you leave people, you leave the spirit of the world. But you do not. You…

— David Martyn Lloyd-Jones