Stained Glass Windows Quotes

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Raymond Chandler

Beauty, Glasses, Blonde

Farewell, My Lovely ch. 13 (1940)

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Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.

Maggie Stiefvater

Thoughtful, Glasses, Color

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.70, Scholastic Inc.

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People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"The Leader's Digest : Timeless Principles for Team and Organization". Book by Jim Clemmer (p. 84), 2003.

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We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.

Marge Piercy

Glasses, Light, Icons

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For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.

Marc Chagall

Heart, Glasses, World

Marc Chagall, Abram Markovich Ėfros, Benjamin Harshav, Barbara Harshav (2003). “Marc Chagall on Art and Culture: Including the First Book on Chagall's Art by A. Efros and Ya. Tugendhold (Moscow, 1918)”, p.145, Stanford University Press

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Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

Adrienne Clarkson

Cutting, Glasses, Pieces

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I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.

Anne Lamott

Sweet, Glasses, Smell

Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.10, Anchor

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Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love, Death, Dream

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There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Life, Thank You, Spiritual

"Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Messenger of Love" by Lennie Kronisch in Yoga Journal, Issue 11 (pp. 18-20), November/December 1976.

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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Khalil Gibran

Love, Inspirational, Beauty

Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Life, Death

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It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love, Life, Family

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Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the something you do daily.

Mike Murdock

Beauty, Beautiful, Heart

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Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death, Procrastination, Knowing

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Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a church links to a story, brands have the potential to build holistic identities.

Martin Lindstrom

Religious, Practice, Hymns

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I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.

Tony Campolo

Jesus, Kids, Glasses

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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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God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.

Johnny Cash

Religious, Glasses, Religion

Song: God Ain't No Stained Glass Window, Album: Bootleg Vol. IV: The Soul of Truth

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A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.

Michael Shermer

Glasses, Light, Space

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The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It's a lot harder to create a stained glass window. I used to get upset at the people who threw rocks but now I'd rather spend my time building the stained glass windows.

Jon Foreman

Glasses, Rocks, People

"Jon Foreman: The Switchfoot man talks about 'Fall', 'Winter', 'Spring' and 'Summer'". Interview with Mike Rimmer, Tony Cummings, www.crossrhythms.co.uk. July 2, 2008.

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Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that our hands were pressed againts the pane of glass, fingers to fingers, palm to palm. We each move closer, so that our faces were only inches apart. Even with the stained glass, window between us, it felt as intimate as any kiss we'd shared.

Claudia Gray

Running, Moving, Kissing

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When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The "sublime" object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping point, remembrance to remembrance, love to love, transfers that object to the refulgent point of the dazzlement in which I stray in order to be.

Julia Kristeva

Memories, Thinking, Sky

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Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their religious roots, wouldn't you? In 1915, Coca-Cola designed a bottle so unique that if it were smashed into thousands of pieces, from a single shard of glass you'd still be able recognize the brand. We call such a device a Smashable. It can be anything from a color to a sound, from a pattern to a smell to an icon.

Martin Lindstrom

Religious, Unique, Color

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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.

Sylvia Plath

Tattoo, Glasses, Body

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What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?

Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

Christian, Religious, Sunday

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