A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it. — Jan Carlzon Copy Share Image
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The Christian catacombs represent simplicity and earthiness; the cathedrals, transcendence and wonder.” — Russell Moore Copy Share Image
A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral. — Fernand Point Copy Share Image
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol… — Roger Revelle Copy Share Image
[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same,… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca,… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons— That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes— Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— We… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
“Let us presume that Barchester is a quiet town in the West of England, more remarkable for the beauty of its cathedral… — The Warden Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“It became obvious why Catholics had built such beautiful cathedrals and churches throughout the world. Not as gathering or meeting places for… — Allen R. Hunt Copy Share Image
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in… — Kabir Copy Share Image
The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of… — William Morris Davis Copy Share Image
I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Why do men bother with churches at all when instead they might make cathedrals out of sky and water?” — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
“in those small towns you come to realize how the cathedrals utterly outgrew their whole environment.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
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