Film Quote by John Maus

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

“the pool of individuals to whom the monastic philosophy applies is limited—and that’s okay. If you’re outside this pool, its radical simplicity shouldn’t evince…

— Cal Newport

Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.

— Tenzin Palmo

“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

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

“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

Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in…

— Thomas Merton

“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

We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

— Shane Claiborne

I'm not a method actor but it certainly does help to have that kind of dedication. I treated my preparation like I was in…

— Patrick Heusinger

The monastic studies have tended, for the most part, to darken, rather than to dispel, the cloud of superstition.

— Edward Gibbon

Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the…

— Martin Luther