Quotes about Construction

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages.

It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

As Don Everts says in his book Jesus with Dirty Feet, "Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.

How could two people get the same set of parts and make such different constructions? But then, there was rising. That had to be taken into account. What could a doormat rear but a pair of boots?

And God, the Master Builder. This is the meaning behind Joseph's words God meant it for good in order to bring about... The Hebrew word translated here as bring about is a construction term

Which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Luke 14:28

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

The Land of Israel needs to build and be built, period.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.