Age Quote by Dave Eggers

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!

— Henry VIII of England

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

— Ruth Hurmence Green

There are a lot of people who had past lives where they were monks and nuns and all their needs were provided for them.…

— Doreen Virtue

“(Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided for wanderers…

— Thomas E. Woods Jr

“Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and the self-renunciation of discipleship into the flagrant spiritual…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Shane Claiborne

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

— Voltaire

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

— Richard Lederer

The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who…

— George Bernard Shaw

“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

Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom…

— William Mountford