Monastic Churches

Famous quotes containing the words monastic and/or churches:

    “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)

    “What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God?”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)