Bible Quote by John McGahern

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

— Robin Boyd

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

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the…

— John Nelson Darby

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

— Andres Serrano

“Arriving in the town of Princeton in the full flowering of fall, he could not help but gush: “Everything is gothic,” he wrote to…

— Owen Strachan

“We were the church. As the New Testament instructed. When it was time for Sunday morning meeting, we convened in private homes. To raise…

— Michael Perry

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

“They are approaching now a lengthy brick improvisation, a Victorian paraphrase of what once, long ago, resulted in Gothic cathedrals—but which, in its own…

— Thomas Pynchon

A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent…

— Madame de Stael

“and at that point the church quietly articulated these words, which tell us something of the secret of old buildings: 'The worse I am…

— Julien Green

I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton