Communes Quote by Christopher Hitchens

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.

— Lawrence Wright

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

— Shane Claiborne

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

“Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political…

— Thomas Wolfe

If you look at Mormonism, it's a very appealing community. It takes care of itself; there are active charities. It's got a successful work…

— Lawrence Wright

On the whole, monks do not become famous - and that is a good thing - but monasteries do - and that is an…

— Basil Hume

I believe there is also a Tim Roth Monastery.

— Tim Roth

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

“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

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms…

— Robert Shea

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to…

— Geoffrey Canada