A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Quotes

“Wherever a Benedictine house arose, or a monastery of any one of the Orders, which were but offshoots from the Benedictine tree, books were multiplied and a library came into existence, small indeed at first, but increasing year by year, till the wealthier houses had gathered together collections of books that would do credit to a modern university.”
― Alfred Wesley Wishart, A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

“Excepting always the religious services of the Benedictine monks, their greatest contribution to civilization was literary and educational[”
― Alfred Wesley Wishart, A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

“No institution has contributed as much to the amelioration of human misery or struggled as patiently and persistently to influence society for good as the Christian church.”
― Alfred Wesley Wishart, A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

“Whenever men obey that injunction of labor, no matter what their station, there is in the act the element of happiness, and whoever avoids that injunction, there is always the shadow of the unfulfilled curse darkening their path.”
― Alfred Wesley Wishart, A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

“A great soul craves occupations and recognizes obligations more in harmony with the true nobility of human nature.”
― Alfred Wesley Wishart, A Short History of Monks and Monasteries