Religion Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“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

“Monasticism resonated with me, with my imperfect, impulsive self, because it encompasses all human activity and asks that the disparate parts and moments of…

— Paul Wilkes

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“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

“Because of this, I feel I am performing a work of love, not of hostility. I do not aim to accuse the contemporary world…

— Adalbert de Vogue monk of La Pierre-qui-Vire

“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 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

“Monk had a brief vision of what it must be like to be a women on her own, obliged to work at pleasing people…

— Anne Perry

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

— Henri Troyat

“One of the great dangers faced by monastic practitioners is that, after a few months or a few years or a few decades, we…

— Michael Casey

The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to…

— Shane Claiborne