Cathedrals Quotes - Page 4

• The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Night, Resonance

  "Byzantium" l. 1 (1933)

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

  Marcel Proust

  Motivational, Dance, Dancing

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust. Ed. with a Translation by Justin O'Brien”

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• A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sun—these would not be so sad as a . . . soul without Christ.

  Tad R. Callister

  Stars, Flower, Eye

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• 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.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Success, Heart, Achievement

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• Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Two, Firsts

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

  Jan Carlzon

  Leader, Design, Inspire

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• There's a certain Slant of light, Winter afternoons— That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes— Heavenly Hurt, it gives us— We can find no scar, But internal difference, Where the Meanings, are.... When it comes, the Landscape listens— Shadows—hold their breath— When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On the look of Death.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Distance, Winter

  'There's a certain Slant of light' (c.1861)

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• Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say.

  Phil Cousineau

  Grandfather, Path, Steps

  Phil Cousineau (2008). “Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination”, p.23, Conari Press

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Tree, Giants

  Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.367, Cambria Press

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• Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.

  Eugene S. Ferguson

  Art, Creativity, Carpe Diem

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• The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over, and in which they may get themselves ready to say "Amen" at the last, with all their hearts and souls and strength.

  William Mountford

  Heart, Men, Years

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.140

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• 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

  Beautiful, Majestic, Creation

  "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief". Book by Francis Collins, 2006.

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• If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear, ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn; the smell of pine trees in the heat of the noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese; the sight of a dragon-fly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening; and--most spiritual and moving of sights--the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Spiritual, Song, Lonely

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• Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables. When you really look for me, you will see me instantly - you will find me in the tiniest house of time. Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

  Kabir

  Spiritual, Vegetables, House

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.

  Ann Bridge

  Religious, Taken, Sublime

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• In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as the priest of his whole life--to take all that is human, and to turn it into an offering and a hymn of glory.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Hymns, Offering, Glory

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• Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A full blown storm where everything changes. The sky goes through four days in an hour, the trees wail, little animals skitter in the mud and everything gets dark and goes completely wild. But it is really God - playing music in his favourite cathedral in heaven - shattering stained glass - playing a gigantic organ - thundering on the keys - perfect harmony - perfect joy.

  Joan Baez

  Dark, Animal, Keys

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Art, School

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Science, Museums, Religion

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• Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all too practical.

  James Leonard Gordon

  Beautiful, Kindness, Character

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• Everyone will live in his own cathedral.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

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• If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Church, Waste, Wasting Time

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• What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Nature, Stars

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.59

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

  Dagmar Godowsky

  Music, Russia, Snow

  Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult

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• At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were habituated to, lit by stained glass windows, was literally awe-inspiring. Today, we're not as impressed by big buildings, so we have to go to very large mountains to experience that 'diminutive effect.'

  Michael Persinger

  Dark, Glasses, Space

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