Day and night Quote by Ken Follett

“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

“I slowly came to recognize individual monks within the crowds of interchangeable orange robes and shaved heads. There were flirtatious and daring monks who…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“One of the monks was doing something incomprehensible at the altar, and the others would occasionally chant a few phrases of mumbo jumbo.”

— Ken Follett

“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

“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

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

— Shri Radhe Maa

“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

“I you ask me about the monks, I speak from experience, not prejudice, and though I have no doubt that some foundations are well…

— Hilary Mantel

“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

“if monasteries accepted the irreligious and permitted abstention from prayer, I'd become a monk.”

— Henri Troyat

“Monks and writers lead very similar lives. We spend our best time in retreat from the world, anxious to make something of our rich…

— Rougeau a Benedictine Monk

“What of ourselves? In actuality the monk’s journey is everyone’s journey, though in our frenetic world of activity and distraction we often miss the…

— Monks of New Skete