Abandon Quote by William Mountford

“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of…

— Guy Sajer

“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

“He had lost his faith in the invisible, and now prided himself, as such unfortunates invariably do, in the wisdom which rejected much that…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If we are content to go back and become humble plain men obeying tradition, well. If we are ready to climb and struggle on…

— C.S. Lewis

“Even if you are a monk, like my brother, passion or slaughter will meet you someday. For you cannot survive as a monk if…

— Michael Ondaatje

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!

— Henry VIII of England

“Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction in earthly things. They will exhaust themselves in the deceitful delights of sin, and, finding them…

— Charles Spurgeon

All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!.

— Henry VIII of England

[The monks'] minds were inaccessible to reason or mercy . . .

— Edward Gibbon

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and…

— Albert Einstein

“He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew…

— Willa Cather

“To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life…

— Mary E. DeMuth