Book Quote by Lora Leigh

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say.…

— Anthony de Mello

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

— Shane Claiborne

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in…

— Quentin Crisp

“Busie olde foole, unruly Sunne; Why dost thou thus, Through windowes, and through curtaines call on us? Must to they motions lovers seasons run?…

— John Donne

I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.

— Thomas Merton

“Now, it is our understanding that his Majesty Grom is requesting an unsealing from his mating with the Common Paca?” “That is correct,” Antonis…

— Anna Banks

If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick…

— Alexander Theroux

Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others…

— Robertson Davies

“Because, my dear, in the spiritual life opposites meet. It's not the cold passionless ones who become great ascetics, but the most hot-blooded, people…

— Antal Szerb

“Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as…

— Gwenn Wright

There are lessons to life That the lovers got to learn There are corners out there You know they're waitin' somewhere And you've got…

— Harry Chapin

“Not celibate are they who wear monastic garb and shut themselves away behind thick walls and massive iron gates, But celibate are they whose…

— Mikhail Naimy