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Art, that great undogmatized church. -- Ellen Key
We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals. -- Andrew Hunt
But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting; -- Marcel Proust
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them. -- Theodor Schwenk
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. -- Robert Hughes
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. -- Marcel Proust
the basement. Katz -- Bill Bryson
Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind. -- Louise Rennison
The trees were his chapel and the hillsides his cathedral. -- Aleksandra Layland
Cubism is a Cathedral of shit. -- Francis Picabia
History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word. -- Khang Kijarro Nguyen
As we drew nearer I saw a cathedral like a crown on the head of a city. In its white walls every window glinted in the sun. Lincoln! Of such places is England made. -No Moon Tonight -- Don Charlwood
Cathedral Close, when I got to St Leonard's, was emptier than a Sally Army collection box at a Pride festival, -- J.l. Merrow
Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone. -- W. H. Auden
Skyscraper National Park -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance. -- Maya Angelou
We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university. -- Roger Revelle
The Lord Jesus Christ is preparing a home fit for all who live for Him, a place designed for the church triumphant. Let's exemplify the work of His hands, for they are busy, on our behalf, building a city large enough to encompass His people of faith - an eternal home for the soul. -- Billy Graham
I prefer the skyline
of a shelf of books. -- Jim Harrison
Temple and cathedral are attractive because they spatially and acoustically recreate the cave, where early humans first expressed their spiritual yearnings. -- David Byrne
The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon. -- Kenneth Clark
A city of light and music, watched over by an alabaster castle with an opal tower so bright it could be viewed for miles. The -- Sarah J. Maas
Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals. -- Theodore Zeldin
The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that. -- Alice Walker
A medieval cathedral could consume a hundred man-centuries in its construction, yet was never used as a dwelling, or for any recognizably useful purpose. -- Richard Dawkins
This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture. -- Malcolm Miller
Were you ever at the cathedral in Chartres? You walk the labyrinth," he says, "set into the pavement, and it seems there is no sense in it. But if you follow it faithfully it leads you straight to the center. Straight to where you should be. -- Hilary Mantel
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. -- Sinclair Lewis
I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in church. And it isn't very different. Of course, nothing looks quite like Notre Dame de Paris. -- Jessye Norman
A high church for the true mediocre. -- Norman Mailer
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers. -- John Milton
Ruins are the cathedrals of Time. -- Marty Rubin
A writer writes alone in a room with no distractions. The minute he's distracted he loses the cathedral in which he must perform, which is himself. -- Shane Solerno
A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers. -- Anita Anand
And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we share With a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passion Which builds beauty amongst chaos. -- Scott Hastie
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope. -- Robert Hughes
I like the aesthetics of the Church. -- Andres Serrano
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world. -- F. Sionil Jose
And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes. -- John Milton
It seemed she was in a cathedral - if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of years of water weeping through stone. -- Laini Taylor
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored. -- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Spires whose "silent finger points to heaven." -- William Wordsworth
As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral - which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense. -- John Burnside
Hamburg is getting a new symbol with its new Elbe Philharmonic concert hall. Such an architecturally impressive building is built somewhere in the world maybe once every five years, if you're lucky. -- Charles Landry
It was a small church. No large cathedral towers overshadowed the purpose of the house of worship. It was a monument to faith rather than a monument to man's triumph over nature. -- Richard W. Kelly
I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building. -- Jason Silva
It's a holy city for music. -- Hugh Laurie
A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept ... -- Leslie Ford
The earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord. -- Augustine Of Hippo
Bellport. A podium. -- Nora Ephron
The Looming Tower. -- Jeremy Scahill
His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cathedral as grand as any in the world. -- Dean Koontz
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. -- Dan Flavin
A complicated structure? Undoubtedly. But after all, the cathedral of Milan is complicated too, and you still look at it with awe. -- Kato Lomb
There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards. -- Michael Gungor
Skyline reveals a city's purpose and character. Oxford had its dreaming spires; Manhattan its glittering towers; Edinburgh its eccentric spikes. -- Alexander Mccall Smith
This building, the tower that was supposed to be the centerpiece of your little Gotham Initiative? Now it'll be your tomb. -- Scott Snyder
He visited the cathedral, and sat in its chilled light, pouring like water from above. He reminded himself that centuries ago men had built churches, bridges, and ships, all of them a leap of madness and faith, if you thought about it. -- Rachel Joyce
The structure echoed the greatest cathedrals of Earth and Mars, rising up through empty air and giving both thrust-gravity stability and glory to God. -- James S.a. Corey
If there is a secular equivalent of standing in a great spired Cathedral with marble pillars and streams of mystic light slanting through two-tier Gothic windows, it would be watching children in their little bedrooms fast asleep. Girls especially. -- Don Delillo
In a town church the right place for the admission of light. -- George Edmund Street
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. -- Ambrose Bierce
A perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither. -- Madame De Stael
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. -- Goldwin Smith
The episcopal palace of D - - adjoins the hospital. -- Victor Hugo
The City that God is building for you and me, not even death can pass its gates! God's City of Tomorrow, His garden of the gods, will have no pain nor death nor sorrow! -- David Berg
This is the entrance
To the city of you... -- Mark Doty
The tropical night has the companionability of a Roman Catholic Cathedral compared to the Protestant Churches of the North, which let you in on business only. Here in the great room everybody comes and goes, this is the place where things are going on. -- Isak Dinesen
St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle. -- Rudy Giuliani
Library: The Temple of the Wise! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
I, that used to figure Paradise
In the guise of a library -- Jorge Luis Borges
The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven. -- Philip James Bailey
I think there's definitely a potential there for a congregation to survive without the Crystal Cathedral. The congregation is the people. It's not the building. -- Robert A. Schuller
It's not just the books Alba craves, it's standing inside a place that houses millions of them. Libraries are Alba's churches, and the university library, containing one edition of every book ever published in England, is her cathedral. -- Menna Van Praag
The churchyard. Walled in by houses and overrun with weeds, choked up with too much buying. -- David Levithan
The room is the beginning of architecture. -- Louis Kahn
In the same way that cathedrals have always aroused in me the sensation of extreme light-headedness one often feels in the presence of man-made tributes to the glory of something that does not exist, -- Muriel Barbery
A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean. -- Joseph Roth
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes! -- George Eliot
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Holy church-that mother who is also a queen because she is a king's bride. -- Teresa Of Avila
The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals. -- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one's exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it undisguised against vacancy. -- William Gaddis
The tavern will compare favorably with the church. -- Henry David Thoreau
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. -- Arthur Erickson
The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but do not shatter it. Although the elements of this world constantly batter and crash against her, she offers the safest harbor of salvation for all in distress. -- Ambrose
A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel. -- Mason Cooley
The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
"Toward a New architecture" July 14, 1957 -- Frank Lloyd Wright
I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies ...
In the Hills, the Cities -- Clive Barker
The church is the gym of the soul. -- Sylvester Stallone
The poor priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I have brought back the treasure of a cathedral. -- Victor Hugo
Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. -- Anatoli Boukreev
The gabled eaves, with Legolandish civic pride, the church clock chimes nine golden times; an Alp rears up on every side; -- David Mitchell
Look up, look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through the gates of the city into the great beyond, the wide, unbounded future of glory that is for the redeemed. -- Ellen G. White
Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church -- Ignatius Of Antioch
In my growing-up years in Germany, I attended church in many different locations and circumstances - in humble back rooms, in impressive villas, and in very functional modern chapels. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Home - the nursery of the Infinite. -- William Ellery Channing
