Institutions Quote by Frederick Lenz

“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

“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

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

— Basil Hume

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

Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or…

— Rowan Williams

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

— Shane Claiborne

I used to live in Buddhist monasteries and I finally had to leave them because they were just too cluttered for me. They were…

— Frederick Lenz

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet…

— Rowan Williams

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

I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any…

— Samuel Johnson