Quotes About Monkish

AND now to ease the scruples of my love, and teach her how to banish from her practice those old world notions, which in theory she reprobates and scorns. Priest- ridden nations and cities grovelling under monkish rule her soul abhors.

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

We must read the Fathers cautiously, and lay them in the gold balance, for they often stumbled and went astray, and mingled in their books many monkish things. Augustine had more work and labor, to wind himself out of the Father's writings, then he had with the heretics.