Art Quote by William Melmoth

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe…

— William Shakespeare

One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness.…

— Walter Isaacson

“Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really understands human…

— Blaise Pascal

“that is just why a vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work:”

— C.S. Lewis

“Do you want to have a humble share in perpetuating wisdom among men, in gathering up the inheritance of the ages, in formulating the…

— Antonin Sertillanges

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and…

— James Branch Cabell

“But saints and angels behold that glory of God which consists in the beauty of His holiness; and it is this sight only that…

— Jonathan Edwards

“The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God.”

— Albert Einstein

“Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be His words, but Himself. It…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“The erotic arts have the same goal as religion; to prevent men from acting like beasts.”

— K. Ford K

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and…

— Walter Savage Landor