Escaping Quote by Anonymous

I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.

— Thomas Merton

“Sorry, I thought I saw a guilt trip looming up,’ said Clements. ‘I had a Catholic upbringing - spent a week in a monastery…

— Ken McClure

“And yet if anything in the world can save you, it is not a convent and not Catholicism, but simply an active interest in…

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but…

— Maria Monk

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

— Victor Hugo

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

You said you would never leave me! I believed you, I believed!

— Flyleaf

If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any…

— Joan of Arc

I KNOW the Lord didn't bring me this far to leave me.

— Rev Run

“Jenny gaped at the rather comic spectacle, unable to believe her own eyes until Friar Gregory was so close she could actually see the…

— Judith McNaught

“we, doubtless, should hear one and another reply, “No, I never intended to come here: I had laid out matters otherwise in my mind;…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?’ ‘No, Ma.’ ‘Then what put…

— Renita D'Silva