Clergy Quote by Elizabeth Goudge

Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

— Garrison Keillor

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

— Darynda Jones

If nuns begin getting more empowered, where does that leave us?

— Tenzin Palmo

The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can do anything,…

— Tenzin Palmo

... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.

— Phyllis Bottome

“In the beginning we all feel a bit like imposters in our capes and veils and being called 'sister'. But don't worry about it…

— Mark Salzman

“I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun”

— Robert Cormier

“The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but…

— Victor Hugo

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

— William Wordsworth

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

— Meg Tilly

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

— Victor Hugo

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life…

— Tenzin Palmo