Marriage Quote by Tom McRae

“Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort…

— Ken Follett

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

— Henri Troyat

“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

“I have wandered freely in mystical traditions that are not religious and have been profoundly influenced by them. It is my church, however, that…

— Anthony de Mello S.J

At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet…

— Rowan Williams

“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

“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 Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely at home…

— Eudora Welty

“THE MONASTERY IS A SCHOOL—A SCHOOL IN WHICH WE learn from God how to be happy.”

— Thomas Merton

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

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