Christianity Quote by Frank Viola

“my own architecture is holy.”

— Laura Yes Yes

“Second only to dedicated temples, our homes are to be sacred edifices of the Lord, places of peace and holiness and sanctity.”

— Patricia T. Holland

When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things…

— Richard Meier

“It was a small church. No large cathedral towers overshadowed the purpose of the house of worship. It was a monument to faith rather…

— Richard W. Kelly

“architecture to spiritually uplift and thought it was a very bad idea to build functional, uninspired blocks of flats that would depress both their…

— Menna van Praag

“Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of the earth.”

— Ayn Rand

“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely at home…

— Eudora Welty

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

— Mario Botta

“I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from the steps of these studies and thus, nursed…

— Vitruvius

“Christianity is a lie, and possibly the best one ever constructed because aside from architecture, it is all that survives from the Roman Empire.”

— Alejandro C. Estrada

“Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -Juhani Pallasmaa”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the question of the values we…

— Alain de Botton