#cathedral

That great Cathedral space which was childhood. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#childhood #great #space #which

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#dedicated #rites #secular #travel

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#cathedrals #each #half #hour #hundred

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. ↗

— David Lodge

#cathedrals #criteria #existence #justify #modern

Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral. ↗

— Henry Moore

#like #me #picture #seeing

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#every #needs #temple

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. ↗

— James Jeans

#closely #grains #inside #more #packed

People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral. ↗

— Sonia Rykiel

#because #cathedral #clothes #disagreed #i

It became obvious why Catholics had built such beautiful cathedrals and churches throughout the world. Not as gathering or meeting places for Christians. But as a home for Jesus Himself in the Blessed Sacrament. Cathedrals house Jesus. Christians merely come and visit Him. The cathedrals and churches architecturally prepare our souls for the beauty of the Eucharist. ↗

— Allen R. Hunt

#cathedrals #catholicism #christ #christianity #churches

The argument from design is hopelessly flawed. Building cathedrals from the top down would provide much better evidence. ↗

— Bauvard

#cathedrals #funny #god #humor #design