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)

    “No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)