Deadly sins Quote by Hilary Mantel

“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

“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

“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

“hypocrisy, fraud, idleness—their worn-out relics, their threadbare worship, and their lack of invention. When did anything good last come from a monastery? They do…

— Hilary Mantel

“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

“For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through the general…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Voltaire

“Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers”

— Shri Radhe Maa

“St. Benedict and every Benedictine who has followed (one prays) understood that the monastery is not a place to hide from problems; it is…

— Carrie Gress

“I re-traced your footsteps to that miserable little Tibetan monastery. It was hard to get the monks to talk, what with that vow of…

— Anne Flanagan

A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk…

— Tim Ward

“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