Quote by Jo Nesbø

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

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

Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution…

— Joseph Fort Newton

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

— Clarence Darrow

All over France, in every city there stand cathedrals like this one, triumphant monuments of the past. They tower over the homes of our…

— Sonya Levien

As some of us prefer to put it, Masonry is not a religion but Religionnot a church but a worship, in which men of…

— Joseph Fort Newton

It is an exceptional event to build a cathedral - it must withstand several lifetimes.

— Santiago Calatrava

“It became obvious why Catholics had built such beautiful cathedrals and churches throughout the world. Not as gathering or meeting places for Christians. But…

— Allen R. Hunt

“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

Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal…

— Lionel Tiger

“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