Appreciate Quote by Tenzin Palmo

In a monastic setting, if someone doesn't want to obey the rules and just wants to live the way they've always lived as a…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years. During this…

— Tenzin Palmo

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

“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

There are a lot of people who had past lives where they were monks and nuns and all their needs were provided for them.…

— Doreen Virtue

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

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

— Shane Claiborne

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

On the whole, monks do not become famous - and that is a good thing - but monasteries do - and that is an…

— Basil Hume

“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

“In all poor countries, where general culture is not very advanced, monasteries give to the masses the silence, poetry and music, for which their…

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya