Catholicism Quote by Thomas E. Woods Jr

“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom…

— Karl Marx

“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

“The story starts with the merging of two heritages, Christian and pagan, as monks reclaimed beer from the shaman, codifying his belief system and…

— William Bostwick

“hypocrisy, fraud, idleness—their worn-out relics, their threadbare worship, and their lack of invention. When did anything good last come from a monastery? They do…

— Hilary Mantel

“Christian monks and nuns were, in effect, the guardians of culture, as they were virtually the only people who could read and write before…

— Ronald Carter

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost.…

— Dave Eggers

“The people who carried the Catholic faith forward in history, who made the culture of beauty, music, art, and architecture rooted in the Christian…

— Paul Scalia

“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

“[...] The monks sped up the process up for us laowai who have less time, less patience for basics, and a greater need for…

— Matthew Polly

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

— George Payne Rainsford James

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a…

— Shane Claiborne

“The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn across the storm-racked ocean, drawn west past…

— Jon Krakauer