Ken Follett Quotes

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

In a town church the right place for the admission of light.

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that.

I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.

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

Episcopalians have always preferred the flying buttress to the pillar of the church.

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

I like Church furniture.

The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man.

I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.

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

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

I was an altar boy in an incredible monastery that was attached to a rectory. The theater of the church is the most incredible theater, and in this church, it was beyond. It was this huge monastery. It was landmarked. It's a beautiful building, and I kind of had the run of it.

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious. I would say that there are many individuals in the Church who appreciate it and who do not have a problem with it. The best place for Piss Christ is in a church.

Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.