Monastic Reform

Famous quotes containing the words monastic and/or reform:

    I like a church; I like a cowl;
    I love a prophet of the soul;
    And on my heart monastic aisles
    Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles;
    Yet not for all his faith can see
    Would I that cowled churchman be.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
    John Ruskin (1819–1900)