What did you say, Gram? About there being no church out here?' 'I said that the sky was the roof of my cathedral and the desert was its floor and any time I paid attention, I could feel a higher power all around me.

— Terri Farley

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

— H. L. Mencken

The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven.

— Scott Hastie

If you can't PRAY for the peace your church, PROMOTE the Christian doctrines, PREPARE for every good work and PROVIDE for the expansion of the Church, you are just like the PEWS (table and chairs) in the chapel.

— Israelmore Ayivor

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

— Roland Barthes

You don't need a great cathedral for a great marriage. All you need is fate to be on your side.

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Love is hope and expectation. If many want to pencil it in, some don’t dare to ink it in, because love also means mystery and enigma. ( ' Love as dizzy as a cathedral').

— Erik Pevernagie

The sun appeared between the twin spires of the cathedral as its light reflected off the crescent and star that rose out of the dome on top of the mosque. It was beautiful, and surreal. In one instant, the bells rang out from the cathedral and if I closed my eyes then I could easily imagine that I was back home in Europe, but in the next, the call to morning prayer sounded from the mosque, and it was a stark reminder of how far away I actually was from my true home.

— Tucker Elliot

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

— Virginia Woolf

God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His kingdom only for those whom He enjoys.

— Criss Jami