#nun

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness. ↗

— Julian Clary

#correspondence #currently #forgiveness #i #interesting

I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away. ↗

— Henry Fonda

#away #been #christian #eight #facing

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#civilization #extent #impossible #instinct #overlook

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#as far as #certain #church #concerned #despicable

In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#canada #cultural #following #grow #grow up

Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a time. ↗

— Maria Monk

#every #every day #night #nunnery #often

We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us. ↗

— Maria Monk

#each #hearing #kept #nuns #old

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance. ↗

— Bill Murray

#counting #dance #does #doing #ended

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#care #characters #depth #hearing #housewife

If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#catholic #catholic church #church #hierarchy #living