Distinction Quote by Saint John Chrysostom

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

— Benedict of Nursia

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

The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic.

— Ronald Rolheiser

“Jesus was indoctrinated in the Therapeutae Buddhist Monk tradition.”

— Lee Vickers

A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma

— Tsem Tulku

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“We often conceive of worldly life as merely a kind of default existence that anyone who is not specially called to monasticism or ordination…

— Daniel G. Opperwall

That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of…

— Seraphim of Sarov

Most of the early monks were not ordained. It was the pastoral work they undertook with the faithful that, over the centuries, gradually led…

— Basil Hume

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

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

— Dogen

“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