Truth Quote by Marcel Proust

“I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need them against the vulgarity of…

— Pascal Mercier

“And suddenly, in the middle of the central nave, I realize something very important: the cathedral is me, it is all of us. We…

— Paulo Coelho

“the words carved above the cathedral of my childhood”

— Daniel Keyes

“Why do men bother with churches at all when instead they might make cathedrals out of sky and water?”

— Hannah Kent

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

— Theodor Schwenk

“You see, I have been at revaluing myself in the last few days. I may have some value to historians because I have destroyed…

— John Steinbeck

“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

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then -…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and…

— Jenkin Lloyd Jones

“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

“the church has unhesitatingly privileged the creed and let the canon fend for itself—”

— N.T. Wright

“Cathedral terminology was like stage directions—totally counterintuitive.”

— Dan Brown