Henry Adams Quotes

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

It might be the wish of many people that Allahabad can be renamed as Prayagraj. I think that it will give a very good message.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

I love how pop culture shapes a generation. The trends, fashion and events all play a key part in how we live our present lives, and will mark how we will be remembered in the future.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers. But that misses the point. Whatever he was, he changed the world.

The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.

The idol is the expression of religion.

I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god.

Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!

For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.

It would be nice if you as journalists - there are some books that explain the painting [ of Guadalupe] what it is like, the significance, and that is how you can understand better this great and beautiful people.

Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest.

The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.

I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.

Catholicism believes in the Virgen de Guadalupe. The mother of God is worshipped, especially in Latin America. I find her very empowering. I find that the Virgen de Guadalupe allowed me to return to parts of my upbringing I had disregarded.

My aunt had given me these rosary beads that were glow-in-the-dark. So all of a sudden I look down and they're glowing, and I'm looking toward the door and thinking, "Oh, my God, I don't want anything to come though here. I'm not worthy, I'm not ready." I didn't want to be one of those kids who sees Our Lady of Fatima.

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

The most powerful element is that a designer has to reflect the times. So often you can only sense a change, and not really understand until much later its significance.

On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade - they didn't particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three explanations, with respect to the Star Wars phenomenon, seem to me all to pass the plausibility test, and to explore them, with respect to Star Wars, I think casts light not just on the saga of our time, but also on everything about our culture.

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

How long do you remember that it is the Lord who is making you work? But then, by repeatedly analysing like that, you will come to a state when the ego will vanish and in its place the Lord will come in. Then you will be able to say with justice "Thou, Lord, art guarding all my actions from within." But, my friend, if the ego occupies all the space within your heart, where forsooth will there be room enough for the Lord to come in? The Lord is verily absent!

When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.