40 Cathedral Quotes for You to Enjoy

How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace. Jim Elliot

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When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth. Robert Green Ingersoll

Truth Teacher School Church Will Poet Blessed Become Every Philanthropist Philosopher Dream Clergyman Until Cathedral Becomes Real Brave Patriot Then Thinkers Honest University

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle. Diane Paulus

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You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. Michael Cunningham

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Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the echoes, you may evoke some monstrosities. Amos Oz

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In Montreal, when I grew up, I'd go to the Notre-Dame Basilica, a gorgeous cathedral in town. I'd listen to huge symphony orchestras, Pavarotti singing operas; that was absolutely marvelous. I like that aspect of the cathedral, the spectacle. Christopher Plummer

Gorgeous Singing Symphony Montreal Marvelous Absolutely Town Like Operas Cathedral Go Huge Up Listen Orchestra Grew Aspect Spectacle

We forget the importance of engineering, but it's been used to design everything from St. Paul's Cathedral to The Shard. Dick Strawbridge

Engineering Design Everything Importance Cathedral Been Forget Paul Used

I bought into Saks as a personal investment because, when I was a young man and went to America for the first time, it seemed to me that Saks was like a cathedral of retail. I never dreamt that I could one day be a part of it. And now I am. Diego Della Valle

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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Frank Lloyd Wright

Business Build House Cathedral Chicken Just Regard Desirable

Nobody has ever called Shea Stadium a cathedral. In style, it was more like the old warehouse or outdated movie theater that Korean worshippers have transformed into a church in the borough of Queens. Not a cathedral - but a place where people go to be fulfilled, nonetheless. George Vecsey

People Old Church Style Outdated More Nobody Like Cathedral Nonetheless Korean Go Queens Stadium Where Movie Place Theater Transformed Movie Theater Warehouse Fulfilled Ever

As a boy soprano in the high school choir, I later sang a solo during the carol service at Canterbury Cathedral, but I was too young to secure the Freddy Eynsford-Hill role in our production of 'My Fair Lady' - and far too timid to have thought to audition for it. Hamish Bowles

Service School Thought Young Too Our Later Carol Secure Solo High Freddy High School Fair Soprano Cathedral Boy Audition Role Timid Lady Canterbury Far Choir Sang Production

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself. J. G. Ballard

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Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand. Jenkin Lloyd Jones

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The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side. Jenkin Lloyd Jones

The Zocalo is a magnificent space, at least four times the size of Trafalagar Square, with the National Palace on one side, the huge cathedral on the other, and in one corner part of the old Aztec City so brutally destroyed by Hernan Cortez and the Conquistadores. Jeremy Corbyn

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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

I studied at Cathedral School, where a lot of kids go abroad after Class XII. But I was clear that I wanted to be an actress, and thus, even though I got 92% in my board exams, I applied only to Jai Hind College for Mass Communication and got in and completed my graduation. Kiara Advani

Class Communication School College Completed Though Kids Exams Abroad Only Studied Clear Thus Mass Cathedral Got Go Lot Graduation Where Wanted After Board Even Actress Applied

I was born and spent my first five years in Chester, an ancient city that retains some of its Roman walls and fortifications and contains a great medieval cathedral, as well as Tudor, Stuart and early 19th century architecture. Visiting these things was free, and my parents - who had little money - made the most of this. Linda Colley

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