Cathedral Quotes

124 quotes by 112 authors

O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees… — Henry Ward Beecher
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two… — Charles Kingsley
I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The… — Marty Stuart
A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral. — Theodore Roosevelt
[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of… — Robert Moses
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoonsâ€” That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunesâ€” Heavenly Hurt, it gives usâ€” We can find no… — Emily Dickinson
Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say. — Phil Cousineau
A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and… — Tad R. Callister
Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral. — Thomas Friedman
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. — Anita Diament
Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. — James Jeans
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. — H. L. Mencken
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a… — Robert Louis Stevenson
That great Cathedral space which was childhood. — Virginia Woolf
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. — Frank Lloyd Wright
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to… — Jerome Lawrence
The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know… — C.S. Lewis

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