Quotes about Cathedral
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
- Charles Dickens
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
- Pope John Paul II
Without the incense of heartfelt prayer, even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.
- Anonymous
I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.
- Betty Greene
People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
- Heinrich Heine
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
Down the river was Notre Dame squatting against the night sky.
- Ernest Hemingway
Speak no more of his renown.Lay your earthly fancies down,And in the vast cathedral leave him.God accept him, Christ receive him.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.
- Francis Collins