Chapel Quote by Julie Orringer

“sit well with Michelangelo. The project seemed like a series of insurmountable challenges: •​It would be the largest fresco on earth—there would be more…

— Benjamin Blech

“Let’s start with Michelangelo’s predecessors. What did they want the chapel to say, and what relevance, if any, do these ideas still have today?”

— Benjamin Blech

“SUCCESS, IT HAS OFTEN BEEN SAID, means different things to different people. Measured by the throngs of visitors who are moved to make personal…

— Benjamin Blech

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the…

— Paul Bettany

“It is likely that this very maelstrom of conflicted impulses is what has foiled all previous attempts to come up with a “unified theory”…

— Benjamin Blech

I can think of so many tough guys that by definition it's their job to be tough and they're all in chapel. That's such…

— Matt Cullen

It has always been difficult to get very close to the spirit of the Sistine Chapel; now that it is cleaned, it is like…

— Nigel McGilchrist

“What is this plan, then? What does the great ceiling really mean? To understand it fully, we have to experience it the way that…

— Benjamin Blech

“On Sundays, the pretending felt almost as natural as nature. The chapel was our favorite place. Long before we could understand what the priest…

— Karen Russell

“God encourages his people, not by denying the beauty and grandeur of the previous temple but by pointing them to how he intends to…

— Winston T. Smith

Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented…

— Virchand Gandhi

The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf