Prayer Quote by Henri Troyat

“If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.”

— Gregory Maguire

“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

“But you're a monk!”

— Van Helsing

“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 would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

— Nhat Hanh

“For two years I’ve been a monk but the only monastery I’ve lived in is my own mind.”

— Bhiksus Heng Sure, Heng Ch’au

If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

— Poemen

“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

“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

“If all it took to become enlightened were to sit and meditate, then all frogs would be Buddhas.”

— Sengai

“Even if you are a monk, like my brother, passion or slaughter will meet you someday. For you cannot survive as a monk if…

— Michael Ondaatje

“No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been…

— Thomas Merton