Cathedrals

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895 - 1983

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867 - 1959

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.
- John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900

Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
- S. M. Stirling

The Kingdom of God is inside you and all about you, not in mansions of wood and stone. Split a piece of wood and I am there; lift a stone and you will find me.
- Gospel of Thomas