Altars Quote by Thomas Huxley

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

— Hannah Kent

All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.

— Philip Yancey

Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be.

— John C. Maxwell

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

— Mario Botta

Church can’t be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we’re afraid to allow others to see our messes. It’s got…

— Ross Parsley

The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

— Robert McAfee Brown

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

— E. Stanley Jones

The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

— George Eliot

How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?

— Hans Rookmaaker