Nun Quotes - Page 6

• I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's one of the main tenets of Buddhism - accepting that what is, is. The root of our suffering is when we just don't want to accept a truth. We want something to be different than it is.

  Sara Bareilles

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Reading

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I left the convent and that was because I wasn't a very good nun. I could see that I wasn't going to make it. It's very difficult to be a nun, or to live a religious life. It's very difficult to live a life of total celibacy or a life without any possessions or material responsibilities at all, or in total obedience to somebody else, and remain a mature whole human being, and I knew that I wasn't going to be one of those.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Responsibility, Mature

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

  Peter King

  Leadership, Zero, Moving

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• It is ironic that Samuel Berger learned of this espionage in exactly the same month that Al Gore was attending his now famous fund-raiser with Buddhist nuns in Southern California.

  Lamar Alexander

  Buddhist, California, Southern

  "Republicans hammer Gore over U.S. policy toward China" by Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. March 10, 1999.

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• We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived very quiet lives. Maybe we don't know a lot about a lot them but what I'm saying is the saints of the 21st century are gonna be regular people - people who've kissed other people. They're gonna be married people.

  Lino Rulli

  Thinking, People, Saint

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Travel, Recovery, Age

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.1360, Tuttle Publishing

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• Patches are a nun's jewels.

  Marie Angelique Arnauld

  Jewels, Poverty, Patches

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• The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

  Nhat Hanh

  Teaching, Character, People

  "Old Path White Clouds". Book by Thich Nhat Hanh, 1987.

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• Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Religion, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.21

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• In high school I was voted the girl most likely to become a nun. That may not be impressive to you, but it was quite an accomplishment at the Hebrew Academy.

  Rita Rudner

  Girl, School, Accomplishment

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• St. Seraphim, like Francis of Assisi, talked to animals. One day two nuns saw him deep in conversation with a bear. The bears of the Russian forests are very ferocious, and the two women were terrified. But Seraphim reassured them and showed them that he who is sanctified lives in peace with all creation, just as Adam did before the Fall.

  Olivier Clement

  Fall, Animal, Two

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• I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Sacrifice, Play, Self

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.

  Kitty Kelley

  Believe, Bishops, Republican

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• Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  School, Laughing, Catholic

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• Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible. ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.

  Julia Sweeney

  Body, Becoming, Reason

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• I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound.

  Karen Armstrong

  Ideas, Clouds, Talking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  School, Dysfunction, Catholic

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• People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

  Jemima Kirke

  Mean, Play, People

  "Jemima Kirke Will Be an Actress Yet". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. November 10, 2010.

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• I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.

  Kitty Kelley

  Girl, School, Names

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• I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

  Anjelica Huston

  Couple, Father, Believe

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• We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses - tabernacles we call them - and over 4600 nuns. It's simply to serve the poorest of the poor. We are wanted and we have championed those who have nothing, the deprived children of God.

  Mother Teresa

  Country, Children, House

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Love, Husband

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• One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.

  Bertrand Russell

  Evil, Catholic, May

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.80, Routledge

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• I don't speak during the day. I warm up physically and, obviously, vocally, constantly. And I try to live like a nun.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Trying, Speak, Warm

  "Tonys Actress Roundtable: 6 of Broadway's Leading Ladies on Losing Themselves in Characters, Avoiding Germs, Hating Cell Phones". Roundtable, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 15, 2015.

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• I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.

  Sofia Vergara

  Running, School, Catholic

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