Cathedrals Quotes

160 Cathedrals quotes by 139 unique authors

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with… — Roland Barthes
I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a… — Maya Angelou
Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias:… — Tom Rachman
Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones,… — Jennifer Worth
It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . . — Oswald Chambers
Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I view… — Anatoli Boukreev
You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the… — Miguel Syjuco
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. — Dan Flavin
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception,… — Adrienne Clarkson
The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color because power confirms… — Carl De Keyzer
Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through… — Joseph Fort Newton
No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the… — Richard Dawkins
Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world. — Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn
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
To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon was phenomenal. Standing… — Peter Lik
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
All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual. — L. Ron Hubbard
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than… — Diane Paulus
I'm not a preacher, and I'm certainly not a good example, but I have my own feelings about God. I'm kind of a nature guy.… — Neil Young
Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like… — H.G. Wells
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral. — R. W. Apple
My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured,… — Joanna Southcott
You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I'm the most violent of all the American painters. Behind… — Mark Rothko

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