Behinds Quote by Carolyn Wheat

A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

— Darynda Jones

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

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

— Victor Hugo

In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to…

— Adolf Hitler

So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life…

— Anonymous

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

— Bronislaw Malinowski

To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns…

— Edward Gibbon

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

— Theodore Zeldin

Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If we take…

— Timothy M. Dolan