Faith Quote by Walter Lippmann

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

— Charles Horton Cooley

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

— Russell B. Long

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most…

— Frederick Lenz

It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better…

— Frederick Lenz

In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.

— Milarepa

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

— Martin Luther

It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale…

— Frederic Chopin

Turn your car into a monastery.

— Robert Barron

“...as our gaze into the luminous vastness deepens and strengthens, and the prayer word grows quiet, and spiritual practices fall away due to their…

— Martin LairdInto the silent land

In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If…

— Dalai Lama

You might say living in a monastery cuts down the commutation time. That alone gives you a couple extra hours a day to meditate.…

— Frederick Lenz

In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of…

— Frederick Lenz