Top 214 Cathedral Quotes & Sayings

A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of a great cathedral would be to a backwoodsman, and yet no cathedral can be more suggestive of past history in its many architectural forms than is the land about us, with its innumerable and marvellously significant geographic forms. It makes one grieve to think of opportunity for mental enjoyment that is last because of the failure of education in this respect.

Everyone will live in his own cathedral.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.

I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.

Once, while exploring Seville Cathedral, I walked into a metal bar and gashed my head.

A true leader is one who designs the cathedral and then shares the vision that inspires others to build it.

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

A good meal must be as harmonious as a symphony and as well-constructed as a Norman cathedral.

In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.

I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedral that I once went to for a wedding.

The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.

Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning they connected theology with what they were doing. They put a banner on the front of the cathedral that said, "How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday."

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.

My company is called East-West Theatre precisely because Sarajevo is this city on the border between East and West, the place where the Great Mosque and the Catholic Cathedral and the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral stand almost within touching distance of each other.

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.

I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the mason replied, "I am making stones." He asked a stone carver what he was doing. "I am carving a gargoyle." And so it went, each person said in detail what they were doing. Finally he came to an old woman who was sweeping the ground. She said. "I am helping build a cathedral." ...Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture.

They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and in the foxhole of my divorce, I found solace in walking to St. Patrick's Cathedral and lighting candles.

What is a roofless cathedral to a well-built pie?

When I started to build this cathedral, the word on the street was that I was crazy.

My ambition is to give Oakland's cathedral a universal character independent of the Catholic Church.

In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you.

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time.

It is an exceptional event to build a cathedral - it must withstand several lifetimes.

When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.

The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

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.

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.

The arts speak across epochs. If you think that people started to build a cathedral in 1315 and the people worked on that cathedral, it wasn't going to be finished until 1585. So they were thinking 200 years from now. Maybe by the time I die, this wall might be put up.

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .

The library is my cathedral.

[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not only a machine himself in the links of these networks, but is also a man sitting in (what Collins is later to call) a 'mini-cathedral.' a man somewhat more than a pilot, somewhat more than a superpilot, is in fact a veritable high priest of the forces of society and scientific history concentrated in that mini cathedral, a general of the church of the forces of technology.

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

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes.