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Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches. -- Anonymous
Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church -- Ignatius Of Antioch
The gilded spiral
Of longings within.
Our very own cathedral
That points persistently to heaven. -- Scott Hastie
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard. -- Philip Massinger
During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic. -- Gary Hamel
Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion -- William Blake
benediction. Below the window, on one of the bastioned -- Anthony Doerr
The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
Rock concerts are the churches of today. -- Craig Chaquico
In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple. -- James E. Faust
Temples are an expression of God's love -- Jean A. Stevens
The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here in this very body. Each one of us is a miniature universe, a living shrine. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24) -- Swami Satchidananda
Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral. -- Thomas Friedman
My altars are the mountains and the ocean. -- Lord Byron
A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters. -- Henry David Thoreau
The problem with monasteries, ashrams, convents is these institutions become extremely political. In other words, they're really small societies, and much of what you hope to avoid in societies you find there. -- Frederick Lenz
That's almost cute: Don't forget your ruler on your first day at cult! But where is 'down below'? -- Robin Sloan
Christ himself is the builder of his spiritual temple, and he has built it on the mountains of his unchangeable affection, his omnipotent grace, and his infallible truthfulness. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The church is something beautiful -- Francis Schaeffer
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
On Sundays, the pretending felt almost as natural as nature. The chapel was our favorite place. Long before we could understand what the priest was saying, the music instructed us in how to feel. -- Karen Russell
Let's go into the sanctuary or the adult Sunday school room, -- Carolyn Brown
The temple of silence and reconciliation. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Children, temples are places where, at least for a short while, the remembrance of God is kindled in our hearts which otherwise are totally immersed in worldly transactions. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines,
Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines. -- Alexander Pope
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. -- Charles Studd
Herricks to the Baptist chapel. Though they often strolled -- Lawana Blackwell
It was a kind of eleemosynary institution, -- Neal Stephenson
Self makes an empty display, and the flesh sets up its altars wherever it can find space for them. Favorite -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
As temples of the Holy Spirit. we should have communion with the Holy Spirit. The work of any believer is not only the work of a human individual, but is actually the work of the Holy Spirit. -- Pope Shenouda Iii
This is where God hangs out. -- Mac O'grady
But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic. -- Paul Bettany
The ministry found in the corners of one's life should match the ministry that is put on display. -- Alisa Hope Wagner
Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life. -- Leonard Ravenhill
There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Holy service in constant fellowship with God is heaven below -- Charles Spurgeon
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
Heaven: the Coney Island of the Christian imagination. -- Elbert Hubbard
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
Temples are places of personal revelation. When I have been weighed down by a problem or a difficulty, I have gone to the House of the Lord with a prayer in my heart for answers. The answers have come in clear and unmistakable ways. -- Ezra Taft Benson
There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher than the worship of any dead symbols. -- Swami Vivekananda
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. -- Anne Lamott
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The remains of five thousand monks were used to build the Chapel of Bones. It serves as a reminder that life is short and death is eternal. -- Rick Riordan
I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys. -- Henri Nouwen
Where the bright seraphim in burning row
Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow. -- John Milton
I like the aesthetics of the Church. -- Andres Serrano
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
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
I wondered if I could call my experience in the chapel prayer
not a long list of asking, after all, or a rote string of words, but rather a kind of sacred listening. [p, 355] -- Kim Edwards
I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own. -- Billy Joel
Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them. -- Hayao Miyazaki
Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ. -- Martin Luther
My church wasn't confined to the inside of a building. I carried it around with me everywhere I went. -- Joni Mayhan
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here! -- George Santayana
The church is a clearing house for believers -- Sunday Adelaja
We are a temple-building and a temple-attending people. -- Thomas S. Monson
Western cathedrals and abbeys ... through soaring Gothic architecture, [give] us at floor level a sense of belonging within (but unable at the moment to inhabit more than a little of) great spaces of light and beauty, into which, significantly, only our music can penetrate. -- N. T. Wright
Our Lady of Cheribim Chit-Chat. -- Rebecca Wells
Every man needs a place to be open and vulnerable with brothers leaning together upon the Lord. -- James Macdonald
Earth's crammed with Heaven. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Quakers are terrific. -- Ian Mckellen
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon. -- Horace Walpole
I think there is no place in the world where I feel closer to the Lord than in one of His holy temples. -- Thomas S. Monson
Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing. -- Rick Ross
Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord. -- Therese Of Lisieux
There are rooms one never leaves. -- Milena Michiko Flasar
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A worship service finds its impetus from an inner furnace of love that burns in the hearts of God's people and is fueled from the altar in heaven. -- Anonymous
Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious buildings were erected in an era of constricted horizons, both in time and in space. -- Martin Rees
The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of
souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and
solitude. -- Ole Hallesby
I want to say one word to you and this word is "Joy". Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy! -- Pope Francis
Prayer is a pillar. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. -- Hilaire Belloc
What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul. -- Elizabeth Von Arnim
In an ancient though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England states, arise the walls of a seminary of learning, which, for the convenience of a name, shall be entitled Harley College. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Liberation of sacred souls connects to specific service. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
If I can bring anyone into that hall [creeds], I have done what I attempted. But it is in the rooms [confessions], not the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals.7 -- Justin S. Holcomb
Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven. -- H.l. Mencken
Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone. -- W. H. Auden
Christ does not inhabit buildings or a certain atmosphere; in fact, the very heavens cannot contain Him. Rather, He is manifested through our obedient, sanctified bodies-His temples. -- David Wilkerson
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. -- Mitch Albom
In every village marked with little spire,
Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame. -- William Shenstone
The church is in the hope business. -- John Ortberg
If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled -- Mother Teresa
The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy. -- Willa Gibbs
They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families. -- Margaret Atwood
Our cemeteries are full of people who prayed to live. -- Annie Laurie Gaylor
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted ... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home. -- Edvard Grieg
A church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty. -- Barbara Mertz
Welsh chapelgoers automatically sang in four-part harmony, and when they were in the mood they could raise the roof. As he joined in, Lloyd felt this was the beating heart of Britain, here in this whitewashed chapel. -- Ken Follett
Respectable Protestant denominations retreated inside...leaving...unaffiliated madwomen to evangelize alfresco... -- Sara Miles
Temple and cathedral are attractive because they spatially and acoustically recreate the cave, where early humans first expressed their spiritual yearnings. -- David Byrne
When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light. -- Richard Meier
My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God. -- Charles Spurgeon
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity. -- Victor Hugo
I'm one of those people that, if I'm in the country, I will have a look inside an old church. -- Alison Goldfrapp
Though I was a Catholic, I recognized that Protestant churches had something. -- Ethel Waters
