Henry Adams Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

  Henry Adams

  Fighting, Men, Soul And Body

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.13, Penguin

• Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

  Henry Adams

  Saint, Assuming, Century

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.58, Penguin

• [After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris]
  [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

  Henry Adams

  Art, Paris, World

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