Church Symbolism Quotes

Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

The weather-cock on a church-spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

A church without women would be like the apostolic college without Mary. The Madonna is more important than the apostles, and the church herself is feminine, the spouse of Christ and a mother.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

A Church without women is like the college of the Apostles without Mary... Our Lady is more important than the Apostles! She is more important! The Church is feminine. She is Church, she is bride, she is mother.