A nun is a woman who has taken vows committing her life to her religion. She may be an ascetic who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent. The term "nun" is applicable to Catholics – both eastern and western traditions – Orthodox Christians, Anglicans, Lutherans, Jains, Buddhists, Taoists, and Hindus. While in common usage the terms nun and sister are often used inte...
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Films On This Subject:
- Change of Habit ,
- The Nun's Story ,
- The Sound of Music ,
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison ,
- The Bells of St. Mary's ,
- Sister Act ,
- Black Narcissus ,
- Come to the Stable
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- The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity. ,
- A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. ,
- Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ,
- The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea. ,
- She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. ,
- Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
