Altars Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.

— Jonathan Anderson

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture,…

— Jason Silva

Whenever I traveled abroad and went into these old cathedrals and churches, I would feel so peaceful.

— Zak Bagans

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

An obsession that I've developed in my old age, is great architecture. I bought a house in New Orleans and I became quite enamored…

— Jennifer Coolidge

“When we look at a perfect cathedral, two different emotions emerge in us: On the one hand, the feeling of admiration for the architect…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Cathedrals are to be adored until the day when, to preserve them, it would be necessary to deny the truths which they teach.”

— Marcel Proust

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever…

— Goldwin Smith

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

— Goldwin Smith

The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

— Theodor Schwenk

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

— Thomas Carlyle