The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament.

- Monica Baldwin

I have always felt that the moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or drear…

- Monica Baldwin

Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense of humor, the spirit of adv…

- Monica Baldwin

Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.

- Monica Baldwin

I had forgotten what mustard fields looked like... Sheet upon sheet of blazing yellow, half way between sulphur and celandine, with hot golden sunshi…

- Monica Baldwin

The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic o…

- Monica Baldwin

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

- Monica Baldwin

It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free t…

- Monica Baldwin

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.

- Monica Baldwin