Small towns Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

“...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next to the strange and the…

— John Irving

“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

“If you are too big to be impacted by your local church, then maybe you are to small to impact the world.”

— Alin Sav

“The world is now an urban place. The resources and concerns of the church need to acknowledge this.”

— J.R. Woodward

“The sun was just coming up over the mountains--blood red and cold. I felt as if I was standing in the mightiest cathedral that…

— Robert Specht

“...but I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar -- you live next to the…

— John Irving

“And we stand there. Singing the cathedral down.”

— Kate O'Donnell

“The joy of a small town lies in its unchanging nature.”

— Bryce Courtenay

“And I hope that all my readers are acquainted with an old English Cathedral town or I fear the significance of Mr Norrell’s chusing…

— Susanna Clarke

“villages grew into towns, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.”

— Patrick Ness

“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

“...cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters...”

— John Geddes