Monastery Quotes
Collection of top 33 famous quotes about Monastery
Monastery Quotes & Sayings
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I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.
— Frederick Lenz
The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
Pippin ordered Childeric III tonsured and sent to a monastery, where he died five years later, the last of the Merovingians.
— Susan Wise Bauer
The Way of the Ascetics
— St Shenouda Monastery
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.
— Robert Orben
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Even in a remote monastery, you may still be remote from the truth! To find the truth, all you need is a sound way of thinking.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.
— Hans Ulrich Obrist
One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
— Martin Luther
Have come to us perhaps only to see whether here he could sacrifice all or only "two roubles," and in the monastery he met this elder. I must
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back. We don't listen to Sri Krishna.
— Frederick Lenz
Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.
— Farid Al-Din Attar
He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,
— Ellis Peters
My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk
— John Keats
To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.
— Walter Lippmann
In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.
— Ernst Toller
Nobody goes into a Zen monastery as a tourist.
— Leonard Cohen
I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Turn your car into a monastery.
— Robert Barron
I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
— Hans Ulrich Obrist
Did you know your hair is just precisely the same shade as a teak inlaid ceiling in a monastery I once stayed at
— Stephenie Meyer
Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.
— Christopher Hitchens
Mr. Monogamy doesn't find my shenanigans funny? Oh thank god, if you did I'd have to chuck it all and join a monastery.
— Kim Cormack
You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.
— Martin Scorsese
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
A life awakened to God so that the world becomes our monastery.
— Ken Shigematsu
