Best Nuns Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I needed to bring my own gifts to my new home, not resist them, not sway to and fro like the tidal waters of the lagoon, but rather chart my own course through the shallows like an experienced boatman.”

Love Fighting Justice Courage Risk Survival Women Rights Nuns Convent Sixteenth Century Venice

Book:The Virgins of Venice

Source: The Virgins of Venice

“When just a kid, moved back to Canada and looking for a taste of England, I’d picked up a book of my Gram’s, a dog-eared romance from the ’sixties about English hospital ‘sisters’ trying to get it on with the doctors, and thought it very shocking behaviour for nuns.”

Humorous England Romance Novels Sisters Nurses Nuns

Book:Famous Penultimate Words

Source: Famous Penultimate Words

“Nuns, after all, were but women, and they had the amiable vanities of their sex.”

Sex Women Vanity Nuns

Book:Medieval People

Source: Medieval People

“You’re telling me you’re not worried about your daughter hanging around with six boys with dubious reputations? And dating one of them who looks at your daughter with…that look?” My brow creased. “What look?” “Oh, please,” Aunt M scoffed. “That look. And not to mention that smile. Hungry,” she growled the word, “and hot enough to make a nun’s panties spontaneously combust.”

Boys Nuns Hex Boys Aunts

Book:Drop Dead Demons

Source: Drop Dead Demons

“We are the bones of this city, the heart, the womb. The hidden structure and architecture behind the beautiful facades. We are unseen yet leaned upon, vessels yet not empty, the home for our families. The hopes of our city are thrust upon us, and we will be punished if we fail.”

Love Romance Courage Risk Survival Secrets Sisters Nuns Convent Sixteenth Century Venice

Book:The Virgins of Venice

Source: The Virgins of Venice

“Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married women slaves.”

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Author:Christina Queen of Sweden

“I was scarcely the first, nor the only current, girl of impressive derivation to be unceremoniously thrust through the iron gate at the entrance of Le Murate by parents whose aspirations for their daughters did not include marriage. Our paths to the convent were varied, but no matter. We all wound up in the same habit.”

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Book:Paint

Source: Paint

“She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to guess where one would land next. The nuns called again, threatening that pneumonia might make an insufferably headstrong child a lot less curious about nature.”

Source: Angels & Demons

“Moving the kids was not a good idea, but I sure wanted to see nuns in monster trucks plowing their way through a blizzard.”

Blizzard Nuns Monster Trucks

Book:Brother Odd

Source: Brother Odd

“He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.”

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Book:Paint

Source: Paint

“There is a sublime wholeness in holding one another, fitting into other bodies. We eat the body of Christ. We drink the blood. So many years later, Nina’s taste still laced my mouth—champagne, sweat, graphite licked off a tongue.”

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Book:Scorched Grace

Source: Scorched Grace

“One year from now, a decade, a century, half a millennium, will things be different? Dare we dream it? When we are seen for ourselves, not just as the conduit of progeny, heirs, lineage, not just as beautiful objects to be protected, inspected, appreciated, but for who we are at the core . . .”

Fighting Justice Survival Venice Women Rights Researched Nuns Convent Sixteenth Century Venice

Book:The Virgins of Venice

Source: The Virgins of Venice

“The evening blessed us with a sunset to rival a painting by Carpaccio in its colours. The sky mutated from shades of ultramarine and azure to vermilion and ochre, then strips of violet and finally indigo.”

Love Fighting Justice Survival Venice Women Rights Researched Nuns Convent Sixteenth Century Venice

Book:The Virgins of Venice

Source: The Virgins of Venice

“I'll bet the Catholic Church lost out on a lot of would-be nuns when they started dressing like ordinary meter maids.”

Recruitment Nuns

Book:A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Source: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“Do you know, sometimes when I think of the unhappiness of the world, I wonder if priests and nuns are not greatly responsible for men and women not listening and not obeying more. You see, we have such a very wonderful thing to say and we say it so badly. Shall I tell you a truth? Sometimes when I read holy papers I feel like becoming a little worldly myself, because of the big phrases in which big truths are stated. For big truths are most powerful in little phrases -- but there I go preaching again, and committing the sin of spiritual pride as well, because I don't express our Lord's wisdom very wisely myself.”

Wisdom Teaching Doctrine Nuns Evangelization

Book:Vespers in Vienna

Source: Vespers in Vienna

“But my mother wanted her children to be educated by nuns and priests all dressed in black, the way it had been done down through the generations with her people. Taught by people who had a firm grasp of how big and awful the world could be.”

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Book:All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories

Source: All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories

“And here am I, she thought, fixed in the religious life like a candle on a spike. I consume, I burn away, always lighting the same corner, always beleaguered by the same shadows; and in the end I shall burn out and another candle will be fixed in my stead.”

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Book:The Corner That Held Them

Source: The Corner That Held Them